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91. Add MS 19446

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Title:
[Gülşen-i Envar] - [كلشن انوار]
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the poem Gülşen-i Envar by Yahya Bey of the Dukagjini family of Albania. It was likely composed during his exile in the Sancak of Zvornik, Bosnia. On f 1r, the following text is written in Ottoman Turkish: Martin 1849 Ayntab bir Şam'da nusuh olunmuştur. Ano...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 item, 89 ff

92. Add MS 19447

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Title:
Divan-i Haleti - ديوان حالتى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Divan of Haleti. The author designates himself by his mahlas only, which is found at the end of the gazeller and in the last verse of the first piece. The Divan is of a mystical and religious character throughout. It contains several pieces in praise of the celebrated ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 66 ff

93. Add MS 19451

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Title:
Hüsrev u Şirin - خسرو و شيرين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an imperfect copy of the story of Hüsrev u Şirin, freely translated from the Persian of Nizāmi, in the same metre, by Şeyhi. Şeyhi was, like his brother poet Ahmedi, under whom he studied in his youth, a native of Germiyan. Later in life he was initiated into Sufi doctrine...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
855
Extent:
1 text, 93 ff

94. Add MS 19507

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Title:
Gül ü Bülbül - كل و بلبل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a mesnevi by the poet Fazlı. Kara Fazlı (Mehmet) of İstanbul was a disciple of Zati and successively attached as Divan Secretary to three sons of Kanunî Sultan Süleyman: Mehmet, Mustafa (to whom the current poem is dedicated), and Selim. He died, according to Kınalızade, in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item, 78 ff

95. Add MS 19622

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Title:
Tezkire-yi eş-şuara - تذكرۀ الشعراء
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets, with copious poetical quotations, compiled by Hasan İbn-i Ali İbn-i Emrullah, commonly known as Kınalızade. Hasan Çelebi was born in 953 AH (1546-47 CE) in Bursa, where his father, Ali Çelebi Kınalızade, filled the office of Müderri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1015
Extent:
1 item, 353 ff

96. Add MS 19628

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Title:
Tac-üt-tevarih - تاج التواريخ
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a history of the Ottoman dynasty from its origin to the death of Selim I in 926 AH (22 September 1520 CE), written by Saadeddin İbn-i Hasan Can, commonly known as Hoca Efendi. Saadeddin was, like his predecessor, the author of the Heşt Bihişt, of Persian ethnic origin. His...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item, 499 ff

97. Add MS 19804

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Title:
[Münşeat-i Veysi Merhum] - [منشأات ويسى مرحوم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of letters written by Veysi Efendi and some other writers. It begins with a letter by Şeyhi Efendi written back to İstanbul in order to announce Sultan Selim's conquest of Egypt in 923 AH (1517 CE). No other notice of the author has been found. The letters hav...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1075
Extent:
Codex, 90 ff

98. Add MS 19805

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Title:
Faziletname-yi Emir el-Muminin Ali - فضیلتنامۀ امیر المومنین علی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a mesnevi on the life and miracles of Ali by Yemini. The author of the text, who appears to have been Shi'i in his practice of Islam, has been often overlooked by some of the more popular Ottoman biographers, given their preference for Sunni interpretations of Islam. He freq...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1087
Extent:
1 text, 224 ff

99. Add MS 20736

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Title:
Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
ca 16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

100. Add MS 22011

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Title:
Nusretname - نصرت نامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Nusretname of Gelibolulu Ali (Âlî Mustafa Efendi) recounting Lâle Mustafa Paşa's conquest of Georgia (Gürcistan) in 986 AH (1578 CE).The author, whose Hayatu'r-rical (Or 3292) is also in the British Library holdings, states in the introduction that, by special desire of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 text, 281 ff

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