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1751. 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

1752. 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

1753. 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

1754. 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

1755. Stowe Or 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 20
Title:
Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 171 ff

1756. Stowe Or 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Or 21
Title:
[Ottoman land transfer document]
Scope & Content:
This scroll contains a nişan-i şerif transferring the timar (military fief) Szent Tamás in the district of Temesvár, from Kâtip Ali, on his resignation, to his son Mehmet. It is addressed to Yusuf, Beylerbey of Temesvár. The document contains a lavishly decorated tuğra of Sultan Murad IV in go...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1037
Extent:
1 text, 2 ff

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