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1561. Or 14351

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14351
Title:
Şeyh-ül-İslâm Pirizade Mehmet Sahıp Efendi Divanlarıdır - شيخ الإسلام پیری زاده محمد صاحب افندی دیوانلریدر
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collected poetry of the Şeyh-ül-İslâm Pirizade Mehmet, known as Sahıp (1085-1162 AH/1674-1749 CE), whose other writings include the first Ottoman translation of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. The poems are primarily religious in character. The contents of the volume ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 30 ff

1562. Or 14353

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14353
Title:
[Kitabu İlmi’l-musiki ala vechi’l-hurufat] - [كتاب علم الموسيقي على وجه الحروفات]
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of Dimitrie Cantemir’s (26 October 1673-21 August 1723 CE) treatise on classical Islamic music. Cantemir was a historian, philosopher, and writer, and is referred to in Turkish sources as Kantemiroğlu. Alongside his political activities and his scholarship, Cantemir gaine...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1233
Extent:
1 text, 41 ff

1563. Or 14358

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14358
Title:
[Münşeat-i Ali Efendi] – [منشآت علي افندي]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the selected correspondence, private and official, of Ali Efendi, an otherwise unidentified Ottoman civil servant of the 12th century AH/18th century CE. The letters include dates ranging between 1143-49 AH/1730-37 CE. One letter, on f 31v, is dated 1110 AH/1698-99 CE. The ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 40 ff

1564. Or 14360

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14360
Title:
el-Fera’idiye - الفرائدية
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a mid-thirteen century AH (nineteenth century CE) treatise on the significance and inner meanings of the invocation Bismillâhirrahmânirrahîm (‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate’), known as the besmele or tesmiye. Its author is Abdülfettah Niyazi ibn-i Hüsey...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1261
Extent:
1 text, 14 ff

1565. Or 14361

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14361
Title:
[Mecmaü’l-kavaid] – [مجمع القوائد]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains one of the first mathematical texts in Ottoman Turkish, authored by Mühyiddin Mehmed ibn-i Hacı Atmaca el-Katib (also known as Hacı Atmacaoğlu Mühyiddin Mehmed). He completed the work in 899 AH/1494 CE, and dedicated it to Sultan Bayezid II (ruled 886-918 AH/1481-1512 CE). ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
926
Extent:
1 text, 137 ff

1566. Or 14365

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14365
Title:
[Ruzname]
Scope & Content:
A vellum scroll containing an Ottoman illuminated calligraphic almanac. Manuscripts on vellum from Turkey are relatively rare. The almanac contains a Ġurrẹnāmẹ, indicating the first day of each lunar month, and tables indicating the times of the five daily prayers as calculated for the Istanbul ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
mid 19th century
Extent:
Scroll

1567. Or 14370

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14370
Title:
Şerh-i kaside-i muallaka-i İmruülkays - شرح قصيدهٔ معلقهٔ امرؤ القيس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the kaside of the pre-Islamic Arab poet Imruʾl-Qays, who passed away around 550 CE. It forms part of the Mu‘allaqāt, a collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems authored by the most renowned poets of the sixth century CE. In his preface...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1173
Extent:
1 text, 69 ff

1568. Or 14383

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14383
Title:
[Garibname]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the first full-scale didactic mesnevi poem composed in Old Anatolian Turkish. Its author is the Ottoman Turkish poet and Sufi Ali ibn-i Muhlis of Kirşehir, known as Aşık Paşa (670-733 AH/1272-1332 CE). He composed his highly influential and widely read Garibname in 730 AH/13...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
850
Extent:
1 text, 332 ff

1569. Or 14393

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14393
Title:
[Mecmua]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a mecmua (miscellany) with a diverse range of texts and fragments of information: (1) f 1r-5r: Notes and diagrams, chiefly concerned with Arabic and Persian grammar (2) f 6v-7r: Verses by various Ottoman poets (3) f 8r-10r: Examples of formal letters and memoranda (4) f ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Middle to late 12th century
Extent:
8 texts, 31 ff

1570. Or 14394

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14394
Title:
[Tercüme-yi Enisü’l-arifin] - [ترجمۀ انیس العارفین]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of a treatise in Persian on ethics and government. Although neither author nor translator are identified in the manuscript, the text is almost certainly a translation of Mevlana Şükrullah’s (Şükrüllah ibn-i Şehabeddin Ahmet er-Rumi) work on eth...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 text, 77 ff

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