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Collection of poetical works by İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi
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This volume contains poetical works by the celebrated scholar, Sufi, and poet İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1115-1194 AH/1703-1780 CE). Renowned in his lifetime for his piety, Hakkı was one of the great Ottoman mystical poets. In addition to his poetry, he also composed the Marifetname, a well-known c...
Mecmuat resail fîhâ risalet ceyb'ül-afakı ve gayrühâ - مجموعه رسائل فيها رسالة جيب الآفاقى وغيرها
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Nine treatises in Arabic and/or Ottoman Turkish, on navigation and astronomy. 1 (1v-13v, margin): Rüb‘ ceyb-i Selimi, A treatise on the ceyp or quadrant, comprising an introduction (mukaddime) and 25 chapters (bāb). In Ottoman Turkish. The diagram on f 14r for finding the direction of prayer, h...
This volume contains the Divan of the Sufi poet Hayreti (died 941 AH/1534 CE). He was born in Giannitsa (Turkish. Vardar Yenicesi) in northern Greece and given the name Mehmed. Both he and his brother, the Mevlevi şeyh Yusuf-ı Sineçak, were disciples of Şeyh İbrâhim Gülşenî. Hayreti later became...
This volume contains the collected poetry of Neccarzade Mustafa Rıza (died 1159 AH/1746 CE), a poet and a şeyh of the Nakşibendi-Müceddidi Sufi order. Born in 1090 AH/1679 CE, Neccarzade Rıza lived most of his life in Beşiktaş, where he studied at the Sinan Paşa Medrese. He initially became a d...
Manuscript containing two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish
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This volume contains two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish. Its contents are as follows: Or 16237 (1) Nidai’s Menafi'u’n-nas, between ff 3v-78r. Or 16237(2) Risale-i Tıbbi’n-Nebi, follows the above text, and is 42 pages. For more on each work, see their individual title entries.
This section contains a lithographed text of 42 pages relating a number of sayings on medical matters attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. According to the short introduction, the work is a translation of the scholar and exegete Abu’l-Qāsim ibn Ḥabīb al-Nīsābūrī’s (died 406 AH/1016 CE) al-Ṭibb a...
This volume contains the Vasiyetname (also known often as Risale-i Birgivi) of the Ottoman teacher and scholar Birgivi (Birgili) Mehmed Efendi (929–81 AH/1523–73 CE). He composed the work around the year 970 AH/1562-3 CE. It is one of many popular works he authored in the category of exhortation...
This volume contains a treatise in Ottoman Turkish on metaphysics, mystical epistemology, and the esoteric symbolism of letters and dots authored by Şeyh Muhyiddin-i Rumi of Edirne. He was a disciple of Bayezid-i Rumi, Şeyh of the Cemaliyye branch of the Halvetiyye tarikat. He passed away after ...
Haza Kitab-i Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn li Nabi Rahmet Allah aleyh - هذا كتاب تحفة الحرمين لنابى رحمة الله عليه
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This volume contains a literary account of the author's journey to Mekke and Medine in the year 1089 AH (1678 CE), composed four years later in mixed prose and verse. The author of the original work is Yusuf Nabi (died 1124 AH/1712-13 CE). In addition to the main text, the work also contains a ...