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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7922
Title:: Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Divan of Baki, the greatest lyric poet of the Ottoman Empire. The Divan begins with fifteen kaside with the following contents: (I) f 2v : In praise of Sultan Mehmet III; (II) f 3r : Elegy on the death of Süleyman's daughter, Princess Mihr ü Mah; (III) f 4v : On the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1046
Extent:: 1 text, 101 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7923
Title:: Vərqa və Gülşa - ورقا و کلشا
Scope & Content:: This volume contains Vərqa və Gülşa, a mesnevi in the metre of Nizami's Leyla u Majnun, by Mesihi. The poem begins: تا نقش جمالنک ای در پاک پرتو صالوب اولدی زینت خاک The author, of whom no notice has been found, designates himself only with the aforementioned mahlas. He lived under Shah Abbas ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Azerbaijani and Persian
Date Range:: 1050
Extent:: 1 text, 184 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7929
Title:: Divan-i Necati - ديوان نجاتى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected poetry of Necati, with a preface by the author. Necati, whose proper name was İsa, began life as an enslaved person in Edirne. His poetical genius won him the favour of Sultan Bayezit II, who attached him successively to the service of his two sons Abdullah and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 149 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7930
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following four texts : ff 1v-118v : Divan-i Naili, the combined poetical work of Naili (Yenizade Mustafa Efendi), a native of Istanbul, who was the secretary of the Divan and died in 1077 AH (1666-67 CE). The contents of the Divan are: kasideler in praise of the Prophe...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 texts, 221 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7935
Title:: [Kasideler of Nef'i]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the kasideler or laudatory poems of Nef'i. Nef'i (Ömer Efendi) was born in Hasankale (today Pasinler, near Erzerum), and followed the vocation of an accountant. He became a panegyrist and a favourite of Murat IV, and one of the most brilliant poets of his reign. But he also ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 138 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7939
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume is a scrapbook, probably written in Baghdad, and containing a collection of short poems and songs, chiefly in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, although there are also a few examples in Persian. The Ottoman Turkish portion consists of anonymous songs designated by the technical names koş...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex, 173 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8994
Title:: Miscellaneous Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:: A collection of Zoroastrian works in Avestan (in Persian script) and Persian containing: ff. 1v-37. Orhrmazd yasht, Avestan in Persian scriptff. 37r-45v. Sawgand nāmah, on taking oaths, in Persianff. 46r-61r. Obligations and religious observances in Persianff. 61v-73v. Naṣīḥat nāmah-i Buzurjmihr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: Codex; ff. 139+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8995
Title:: Selection of yashts
Scope & Content:: A collection of yashts in Avestan, followed by patēt, transcribed in Persian script. Imperfect at the beginning with the first folio numbered 40 in Persian. Contents comprise: Ohrmazd yasht, beginning with verse 5 (ff. 2r-10v) Ardibihisht yasht (ff. 10v-17r) Srōsh yasht hadōkht (ff. 17r-24v) ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1775
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+53+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8997
Title:: Avestan Dron and other texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of drōn and other works in Avestan with headings and some introductory text in Persian. Folios 170-193 have been transcribed in Persian script. The manuscript is a composite of two items bound together: an older part (ff. 77-165, 170-97) which is supplemented by a newer part (ff...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 18th or 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+205+iii

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