A volume containing two divans: ff 1v-74v : The Divan of Nedim (died 1143 AH/1730 CE), which is further subdivided into the following sections: kasideler, chronograms and other materials (ff 1v-50r); gazeller (ff 50v-72v); Rubaiyat (ff 72r-73v); and Persian ghazals (ff 73v-74v); ff 75r-126r :...
Collection of Arabic astrological and divinatory texts, and a fragment of a Persian manuscript
Scope & Content:
Collection of astrological and divinatory texts and diagrams drawn from sources both ancient and contemporary with the scribe, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṣāḥib Nūr al-Dīn al-Jazarī al-Masīḥī (عبد الله بن الصاحب نور الدين الجزري المسيحي), who copied it for his own use in 867/1462-3 (see colophon, f. 19r, ...