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This volume contains the Kanunname-yi Cedid, a compilation of laws and regulations put together during the reign of Mehmed IV (reigned 1058-1099 AH/1648-1687 AD). It takes into account the judgments of a range of jurists from the period of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 926-974 AH/1520-1566 C...
This volume contains the third volume (of what would originally have been four) of an Old Anatolian Turkish version of the commentary on the Quran by the theologian, jurisconsult, and Sufi of Transoxania Ebü’l-Leys Semerkandi (died 373 AH/983 CE). Ebü’l-Leys was a prolific writer in a number of ...
An Ottoman Turkish almanac comprising 12 pages of tables of predictions by each day of each month of the year. The manuscript starts with an overview of the year and its correlation to the zodiac (f. 2r), followed by monthly predictions. The monthly predictions are accompanied by advice purporte...
Hidāyat al-sālikīn fī sulūk maslak al-muttaqīn, in Malay in Jawi script. A MS from Aceh. Hidāyat al-sālikīn fī sulūk maslak al-muttaqīn, ‘A guide for travellers on the path of those who fear God’, by Abdul Samad of Palembang (‘Abd al-Ṣamad al-Falimbānī, ca. 1704-1789), is a Malay adaptation o...
[Manuscript containing two texts related to Mevlana Rumi]
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This volume contains the following two works: (1) 3v-37v, Fatihü’l-ebyat – فاتح الابيات This is İsmail Rusuhi Ankaravi’s (died 1041 AH/1631 CE) commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) Mesnevi. (2) 38v-138r: [Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [...
Very fine West African copy of the Qur'an. Presented to Lieutenant Lancelot Heygate, Royal Engineers, in Nigeria by Serikim Owdu (?) of Makurdi, Benue River, Nigeria around 1916 and sent by him to his father, Canon Ambrose Heygate, in Cheshire, with a letter detailing provenance. The letter says ...