This volume contains the Tazarru‘name, a work on spiritual concepts and doctrines with praises of the prophets and sacred personalities. It was authored by Sinan Paşa (died 891 AH/1486 CE), an Ottoman religious scholar, Sufi, and statesman. Sinan Paşa was born between 841-845 AH/1437-1441 CE. H...
This volume contains the collected fetava of Yenişehirli Abdullah Efendi (died 1156 AH/1743 CE), who was Şeyhülislam of the Ottoman Empire between 6/6/1130–17/3/1143 AH/ 7/5/1718–30/9/1730 CE. Originally of Yenişehir, Abdullah Efendi completed his medrese education in Istanbul. He went on to s...
Qur’an, Aceh. Lacking beginning, text starts at S. al-Baqarah, Q.2:93. Text frames are ruled lines of red-black-red-black ink. Verse markers are yellow or orange roundels outlined in black, mm diameter, with composite 4-petalled roundels coloured in red, yellow or black at the end of the final su...
This volume contains a didactic mesnevi on Islamic ethics and doctrine, by the poet Ahmed ibn-i Osman ed-Diyarbekiri, known as Ahmed Mürşidi (died 1174 AH/1760 CE). The work was widely read in the author’s time and in subsequent periods. The text has sometimes been incorrectly attributed to Ahme...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Daghistan. The colophon on f. 546r dated Rabiulawal 1237 (November/December 1821), which mentions the name Musa bin Muhammad al-R... al-Jakki al-Hakari and the masjid al-Jakki al-Hakari bi-Filibin, may be a fraudulent modern addition. Contents: f. 1r: a few lin...
This volume contains a bilingual Syriac-Arabic collection of 150 psalms. The text is arranged as an interlinear translation, with the Arabic text atop the Syriac lines until f 18v, when it goes below. The Syriac appears to have been copied first, followed by the Arabic, which occasionally exhibi...
This volume contains three texts: ff 2v-26v : [Menakıb-ı Ebu Ali Sina ve karındaşı Ebu’l-Haris]. This section contains mythical narratives of the extraordinary exploits of Ebu Ali Sina (Avicenna, who is the subject of a number of such tales) and his brother Ebu’l-Haris, both of whom had mastere...
