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2. Harley MS 5485
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5485
- Title:
- Şerh-i Gulistan - شرح گلستان
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish paraphrase of the Gulistān (گلستان) of Saᶜdī by Şemi. The author says in the preface that he had withdrawn from the commerce of men, and was living in contented seclusion, when he was requested by Mehmet Çelebi, Debir (Steward) of the Padişah''s gardens,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 1000
- Extent:
-
2 texts, 239 ff
3. Harley MS 5466
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5466
- Title:
- Arabic-Ottoman Turkish Vocabulary
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary that does not include the author''s name. In a prologue in mesnevi, the work is described as an improved and enlarged recension of the vocabulary composed by Ferişteoğlu, the versification of which, according to the author, was n...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Latin, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 1101
- Extent:
- 1 text, 48 ff
4. Harley MS 5493
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5493
- Title:
- [Fragment of Kıssa-yı Ebu Müslim]
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains a detached portion of 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). The text is not divided into sections as in Or 1128. It is d...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 text, 118 ff
5. Harley MS 262
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 262
- Title:
- Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 text, 82 ff
6. Harley MS 5522
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5522
- Title:
- Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains a book of remel, the science of divining through the use of dots. Its arrangement is largely similar to the text found in Harley MS 262. In a preface, the book is said to have been written for Hārūn al-Rashīd by 12 sages selected out of twelve thousand, and to comprise 144...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 text, 76 ff
7. 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
8. Harley MS 5457
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5457
- Title:
- Cedvel-i Gurrename, Rakam-i Gurre-yi Nücumi ve Rakam-i Gürre-yi Şera''i naklihi Şeyh Vefa - جدول غره نامه رقم غرۀ نجومی و رقم غرۀ شرعی نقله شیح وفا
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains the calendar of Şeyh Vefa. The second table of the work (f 2r) shows the day of the week on which each of the Hijri months begins in the years 1107-14 AH (1695-1705 CE). The calendar has one page for each of the Syrian months, from Azer to Şubat. Şeyh Vefa, to whom the R...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 1107
- Extent:
- 1 text, 9 ff
9. Harley MS 3280
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3280
- 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:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 text, 326 ff
10. Harley MS 500
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 500
- Title:
- [Ottoman Turkish-Persian-Arabic Vocabularies]
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains the following three texts: ff 20v-39v : The Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Mu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Extent:
- 3 texts, 138 ff