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032-002112337 Language Turkish, Ottoman Level [40] File

1. Sloane MS 3113

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3113
Title:
Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1105
Extent:
1 text, 97 ff

2. 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

3. Sloane MS 3248

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3248
Title:
[Extract from the Hümayun-name]
Scope & Content:
An extract from the Hümayun-name, the fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. The current extract is the story of the hermit, the fox, the procurer and the wives of the shoemaker and the barber (the eighth story of Bab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 13 ff

4. Sloane MS 3586

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3586
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:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
977
Extent:

1 text, 401 ff

5. Sloane MS 3255

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3255
Title:
Ahdname
Scope & Content:
This scroll contains a copy of an ahdname issued by I Sultan Ibrahim shortly after his accession to the throne, at the request of the Ambassador of King Charles I, Sir Sackvile Crow, in confirmation of the treaty granted by his antecedent III Sultan Murat to Queen Elizabeth I, renewed first by h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1051
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

6. Sloane MS 3583

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3583
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a tabular version of 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). The formatting of the text and addition of Arabic equivalents was completed by Al-Ḥājj Mūsá al-Shar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1704
Extent:
1 text, 48 ff