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Language Turkish, Ottoman Name Alexander, called The Great, 356-323 BC Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 3273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3273
Title:
İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 text, 320 ff

2. Royal MS 16 B XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B XXI
Title:
[Kitab-i ihtilaçname] - [كتاب احتلاج نامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Segirname or treatise in tabulated form showing the omens to be drawing from throbbings in various parts of the body, under the heading Kitab-i ihtilaçname. It gives, in five columns, the import assigned to the throbbings by Cafer Sadık, the Prophet Daniel, İskander Zu'l-k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 7 ff (ff 13-19)

3. Sloane MS 4088

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4088
Title:
Acayıbu'l-mahlukat - عجائب المخلوقات
Scope & Content:
This volume contains Yazıcıoğlu Ahmet Bijan's abridged translation Acayıbu'l-Mahlukat. The author says in the preface that in the time of Alexander, the sages of the world had come together and described the wonders of the universe. In the age of Imām Shāfiᶜī, that work had been translated fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 73 ff