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Language Turkish, Ottoman Level [32] Fonds

131. Or 1036

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1036
Title:
Fazailü'l-Cihad - فضائل الجهاد
Scope & Content:
This volume, entitled The Merits of Jihad, contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Arabic work Mashāriᶜ al-ashwaq ilá maṣāriᶜ al-ᶜushshaq of Aḥmad bin Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī. The translator, who calls himself Abdülbaki, is the famous poet known by the mahlas of Baki. Like Hafız, the great Ot...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1249
Extent:
1 text, 203 ff

132. Or 1038

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1038
Title:
Cihannüma - جهان نما
Scope & Content:
The Cihannüma or Mirror of the World, by Kâtip Çelebi Mustafa Halife, better known in Europe as Haci Halife. We learn from the preface that the author prepared himself for the composition of this geographical work by translating the Atlas Minor of Hondius, which he accomplished by 1064 AH (1654 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 134 ff

133. Or 1040

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1040
Title:
Risale-yi Muhammadiye - رسالۀ محمدیه
Scope & Content:
The well-known religious poem of Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet Efendi. Mehmet bin Salih, also known in Arabic as Ibn al-Kātib, or as Yazıcıoğlu in Turkish, is often connected to his brother Ahmet Bijan. He was a native of Malgara near Edirne, as mentioned in the commentary of İsmail Hakkı, and became a disc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1049
Extent:
1 text, 312 ff

134. Or 1127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1127
Title:
Şerefname - شرفنامه
Scope & Content:
An Ottoman Turkish translation of the Sharaf-nāmah by Sharaf bin Shams al-Dīn Bitlisī. This history of the Kurds includes the Hatime, a history of the Ottoman dynasty. The original work was written in Persian, and this Ottoman translation was rendered by Mehmet Beg ibn-i Ahmet Beg Mirza. The f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1080
Extent:
1 text, 372 ff

135. Or 1128

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1128
Title:
Kıssa-yı Ebu Müslim - قصۀ ابو مسلم
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the story of Ebu Müslim, a well-known romance, the hero of which is the celebrated general who seated the Abbasids on the throne and was put to death by Khālif Abū Manṣūr in 137 AH (755 CE). This volume contains the latter half of the work. It is divided into two parts, th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
988
Extent:
1 text, 157 ff

136. Or 1130

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1130
Title:
[Two Ottoman Turkish Texts]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two texts: ff 1v-126v : A compendium of general history dealing primarily with the Ottoman Dynasty, compiled by Mehmet Nişancı. The author, who calls himself "the ancient servant, the humble Mehmet, sometimes writer of the imperial tuğra", after enlarging upo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1118
Extent:
2 texts, 116 ff

137. Or 1136

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1136
Title:
Netaicu'l-fünun ve mehasinü'l-mütun - نتائج الفنون و محاسن المتون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopedia of twelve sciences compiled by Nev'i. The author, who designates himself by this mahlas, was Yahya İbn-i Pir Ali İbn-i Nasuh, the son of a Şeyh of Malgara. Born there in 940 AH (1533-34 CE), he became one of the eminent Ulema and poets of the reign of Murat I...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 110 ff

138. Or 1137

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1137
Title:
[Tarih-i sefer-i Kandia] - [تأريخ سفر قندیه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the siege of Kandia, Crete by the Grand Vezir Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmet Paşa (1077-80 AH/1667-69 CE), without the author's name mentioned. It is under the heading: Haza tarih-i Kandia-yi merhum ve mağfur lihi Köprülüzade Vezir-i A'zam ve Serdar-i ekrem Fazıl Ahme...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1180
Extent:
1 text, 76 ff

139. Or 1138

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1138
Title:
Hümayun-name - همايون نامه
Scope & Content:
The fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. Ali Çelebi was a native of Edirne and was commonly known as Vasi' Alisi because he had started his career as assistant, or müeyyid, to the professor Mevlana Abdulvasi'. Abd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
959
Extent:
1 text, 374 ff

140. Or 1141

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1141
Title:
[Fenni-yi coğrafiye] - [فنى جغرافية]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise of geography compiled from European works by Mahmud Raif Efendi, with a preface not signed by the author. The author of the preface, who was likely Yakovalı, says that his patron, Reis ül-Kuttab Mahmud Raif Efendi, had contemplated the compilation of a geographi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 182 ff

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