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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7246
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume is an anthology containing mainly letters and petitions addressed to various officials, selected as models for correspondence and examples of fine inşa, beginning with the exordium of one addressed to the Grand Vizier (f 1r), followed by poems addressed to the Sultan, one by Yahya (f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex, 91 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7248
Title:: [Beyaz] - [بياض]
Scope & Content:: This volume is a beyaz containing the following items: Persian verses entitled Az sukhan-i ᶜārifān (از سخن عارفان) (f 1r); after which come Ottoman Turkish verses (f 1v), including those by Haşimi (f 2r); a medical prescription for an electuary (ff 8v-9r); a short letter to a Şeyh; a few semai...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex, 152 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7262
Title:: [Fragments of Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabularies]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains fragments from two Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabularies (ff 113-114; and ff 114-121). The original texts were likely copied in the 18th century CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 texts, 10 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7263
Title:: Divan-i Necati - ديوان نجاتى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected poetry of Necati (died 914 AH/1508-09 CE), commencing with a preface in mixed prose and verse (ff 2v-5v) mentioning the reigning sovereign, Bayezit II. In the margin of these folios are several kasideler of Necati. This is followed by a Na't-i şerif, after wh...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 76 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7299
Title:: Kitab-i Cevahirü'l-Kelimat - كتاب جواهر الكلمات
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a versified Ottoman Turkish-Arabic vocabulary by Şemsi which is an imitation of those by Ferişteoğlu and Şahidi. Each section (kıt'a) is in a different metre of which the pattern is given at the end. There are two other mesneviler in this manuscript: ff 46v-50r : An anon...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1130
Extent:: 3 texts, 76 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7300
Title:: Chār sharbat - چار شربت
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following two texts: ff 3v-84v : a treatise on Persian composition written by Mīrzā Qatīl for Mīr Sayyid Muḥammad bin-i Mīr Amān ᶜalī; ff 84v-99v : A Chagatai-Persian glossary forming part of the last sharbat, and a sketch of Chagatai grammar (ff 98r-99v). The manus...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 texts, 99 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7315
Title:: 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat by Qazvini. One hundred and ninety-four miniatures.
Scope & Content:: ‘‘Aja’ib al-makhluqat’ by Qazvini. One hundred and ninety-four miniatures. Persian. Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Literature: Handlist, p.48. Titley no. 243. f.11b. Pegasus (horse). f.12a. Equus Major (horse). f.12b. Draco (dragon). f.26b. Angels which support God’s throne. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1575-1625
Extent:: 1 Item

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