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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language Arabic Subject Divination--Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 7473, ff 64r-81r

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Add MS 7473, ff 64r-81r
Title:
al-Juz’ al-awwal min kitāb al-jafar الجزء الأول من كتاب الجفر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on divination drawing on the authority of Aristotle, Daniel and Solomon. Contents: Begins (f. 63v, lines 7-10): في التبصرة في شرح الشهور العربية والرومية وبروجها وما فيها ومنازل القمر والأنواء وطلوع المنازل وغرب النظائر Ends (f. 81r, line 25): عيد التجلى تسعة وعشري منه مقتل يوحن...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
639
Extent:

Ff. 64r-81r

2. Add MS 7890

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Add MS 7890
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following six texts in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic : (I) ff 1v-36r : A model letter collection for the use of military officers. It contains models of letters by Zağarcıbaşılar, Çorbacıbaşılar, Turnacıbaşıları, and others to the Kâya Bey, or the Ağa of Janissa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
6 texts, 139 ff

3. Add MS 9702

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Add MS 9702
Title:
[Ottoman Mecmua of Divination]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two texts : (I) ff 1v-45v : Haza er-risale fi beyan er-remel an telif-i Daniyal nebi aleyhi as-salah ve's-salam, a book of divination (Kitab-i Remel) by dots ascribed to the Prophet Daniel. The figures used in this mode of divination consist of sixteen combin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
2 texts, 126 ff

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