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Language Turkish, Ottoman Level [32] Fonds

91. Add MS 19628

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Title:
Tac-üt-tevarih - تاج التواريخ
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a history of the Ottoman dynasty from its origin to the death of Selim I in 926 AH (22 September 1520 CE), written by Saadeddin İbn-i Hasan Can, commonly known as Hoca Efendi. Saadeddin was, like his predecessor, the author of the Heşt Bihişt, of Persian ethnic origin. His...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item, 499 ff

92. Add MS 19804

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Title:
[Münşeat-i Veysi Merhum] - [منشأات ويسى مرحوم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of letters written by Veysi Efendi and some other writers. It begins with a letter by Şeyhi Efendi written back to İstanbul in order to announce Sultan Selim's conquest of Egypt in 923 AH (1517 CE). No other notice of the author has been found. The letters hav...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1075
Extent:
Codex, 90 ff

93. Add MS 19805

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Title:
Faziletname-yi Emir el-Muminin Ali - فضیلتنامۀ امیر المومنین علی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a mesnevi on the life and miracles of Ali by Yemini. The author of the text, who appears to have been Shi'i in his practice of Islam, has been often overlooked by some of the more popular Ottoman biographers, given their preference for Sunni interpretations of Islam. He freq...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1087
Extent:
1 text, 224 ff

94. Add MS 20736

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Title:
Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

95. Add MS 22011

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Title:
Nusretname - نصرت نامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Nusretname of Gelibolulu Ali (Âlî Mustafa Efendi) recounting Lâle Mustafa Paşa's conquest of Georgia (Gürcistan) in 986 AH (1578 CE).The author, whose Hayatu'r-rical (Or 3292) is also in the British Library holdings, states in the introduction that, by special desire of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 text, 281 ff

96. Add MS 23585

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Title:
[Tarih-i Raşit] - [تأريخ راشد]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the last portion of the official history of the Ottoman Empire, extending from the accession of Ahmet III (1115 AH/1703-04 CE) to 1134 AH (1721-22 CE), compiled by Mehmet Raşit. In the epilogue of the present work (f 495r), Raşit states that his labours as court chronicler...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1136
Extent:
1 text, 497 ff

97. Add MS 23586

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Title:
[History of Sultans Bayezit II and Selim I]
Scope & Content:
A history of the reigns of Bayezit II and Selim I, without preface, title or author's name. The rubrics of the text are written in Persian throughout in sulusi hand. The contents of the work are as follows: ff 2v-87v : Reign of Bayezit II from his accession on 21 Rebiülevvel 886 AH (20 May 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
960
Extent:
1 text, 190 ff

98. Add MS 23595

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Title:
Haza kitab-i silahşör / هذا كتاب سلاحشور
Scope & Content:
A text on military horsemanship that begins "Hāẕā Kitāb-i silāḥshor", this item does not contain any indication of authorship. It is divided into short sections headed فن (فن صول اوزنكون، فن صاغ اوزنكو، فن طابو), each describing a special manoeuvre to be executed on horse-back with bow and arrow...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1006
Extent:

1 text, ff. 47

99. Add MS 23985

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Title:
Divan-i Galip - ديوان غالب
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collected poetry of Galip. Mehmet Esat, son of Mustafa Reşit Efendi, commonly known as Galip Dede, was Şeyh of the Mevlevi tarikat in Galata. He was the most eminent poet of his time and was highly esteemed by Sultan Selim III. He was born in 1171 AH (1757-58 CE) and die...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1272
Extent:
1 text, 174 ff

100. Add MS 24957

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Title:
Tezkire-yi eş-şuara - تذكرۀ الشعراء
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets, with copious poetical quotations, compiled by Hasan İbn-i Ali İbn-i Emrullah, commonly known as Kınalızade. Hasan Çelebi was born in 953 AH (1546-47 CE) in Bursa, where his father, Ali Çelebi Kınalızade, filled the office of Müderri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1021
Extent:
1 text, 312 ff

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