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Language Turkish, Ottoman Subject Islamic astronomy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 7892

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Add MS 7892
Title:
[Mecmua of texts by Mustafa İbn-i Ali Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following four texts : (I) ff 1v-26v : Teshilü'l-mikat, an astronomical treatise by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii, on the sinuated quadrant (rub'-i mücip) and its use, consisting of a Mukaddime and twenty-five ebvap ; (II) ff 26v-39r : Kifayetü'l-v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
4 texts, 70 ff

2. Add MS 7896

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Add MS 7896
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-zaman ve haridetü'l-avan - تحفة الزمان و خريدة الاوان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a cosmographical work by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, Muvakkıt of the Sultan Selim Camii in İstanbul. The preface is mainly taken up with a general review of all the subjects expounded in the work. It is cut short in the present copy by the loss of one or more leaves after f 4. The ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 182 ff

3. Or 7274

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Or 7274
Title:
[Ahkam ve ihtiyarat] - [احكام و اختيارات]
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a description of the influences of the planets compiled for the reigning Sultan, Mahmud II, by the Reis ül-Müneccimin, Mehmet Sadık, followed by the horoscopes of the Grand Vizier and other important personages of the Ottoman Empire. On f 1v, the day of the vernal equi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1226-1227
Extent:
1 text, 13 ff

4. Or 9829

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9829
Title:
Tesyir el-kevakib el-semaiye bi-sa'd il-devlet el-şerife el-Süleymaniye - تسيير الكواكب السمائية بسعد الدولت الشريفة السليمانية
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a work showing the first days of the Hijri and Rumi months, the solar and lunar years, and the motions of the planets around the sun, as well as other calendrical and astronomical information, from 945 AH to 1000 AH (1539-92 CE), compiled by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, muvakkit (time...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
945
Extent:
1 text, 48 ff

5. Or 11061

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11061
Title:
Tenbihatu'l-münaccimin - تنبيهات المنجمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Tanbīhāt al-munajjimīn (تنبيهات المنجمين), a Persian work on astrology which the author, Muẓaffar bin Qāsim Junābādī, began in 1031 AH (1622 CE) and dedicated to ᶜabbās I. It is divided into a mukaddime, six ebvap and a hatime. Accordi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1266
Extent:
1 text, 186 ff

6. Or 14275

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14275
Title:
Two Ottoman Astronomical Treatises
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two astronomical treatises on aspects of the use of the quadrant. They were originally written in Arabic by Süleyman Murat Gedüsi (died 1853? CE), and were translated by him into Ottoman Turkish. (I) ff 1v-10r: Tercüme-yi Gedüsi li'l-Mukatarat, a text on the mukantarat, ci...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1268
Extent:

2 texts, 20 ff

7. Or 16125

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16125
Title:
[Tuhfetü’z-zaman ve haridetü’l-evan] - [تحفة الزمان وخريدة الاوان]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on cosmography and on determining prayer times authored in 932 AH/1526 CE by the Ottoman astronomer, astrologer, and timekeeper, Mustafa ibn-i Ali el-Muvakkit (died 979/1571). Mustafa ibn-i Ali was born in Istanbul in the early tenth century AH/sixteenth century ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1072
Extent:
1 text, 222 ff