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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7336
Title:: Naks-i hayal - نقص خيال
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an ethical mesnevi by Azeri İbrahim Çelebi (died 1586 CE). The text contains a single gilded unvan. The manuscript was likely copied in the 17th century CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 94 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7337
Title:: [Tercüme-yi Nigaristan] - [ترجمۀ نکارستان]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Nigāristān of Aḥmad Ghaffārī. The text here is identical with that found in Add MS 7852, which is defective at the beginning. The name of the translator, which is missing in Add MS 7852, is, however, listed in this copy (f 2r) as İbn-i M...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1055
Extent:: 1 text, 189 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7338
Title:: Nurü'l-hüda limen ihteda - نور الهدى لمن اهتداء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a description of the ten Derviş orders by Ömer İbn-i Mehmet Karakaşzade, who died in 1047 AH (1673-74 CE). It is dedicated to the Grand Vizier, Ali Paşa. According to an article by Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, the Nurü'l-hüda is a plagiarism of an earlier work by Vahidi, enlarged a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 211 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7339
Title:: Heft dasitan - هفت داستان
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an anonymous narrative, written in extremely ornate style, of the campaigns of Süleyman I from 970-74 AH (1562-66 CE). The date of completion of the text is 980 AH (1572-73 CE), as appears on f 114r. The text contains a single unvan. Although the manuscript is undated, i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 115 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7341
Title:: [Mevlud] - [مولود]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a copy of Süleyman Çelebi's well-known poem on the birth of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم. The manuscript was likely copied in the 17th or 18th centuries CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 text, 12 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7343
Title:: Divan-i zer-nişan-i Fehim - ديوان زر نشان فهيم
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the poems of Uncuzade Mustafa Çelebi, also known as Fehim-i Kadim (died 1048 AH/1648-49 CE). It begins with a gazel, followed by kasideler and compound poems that begin with a na't (ff 49r-81v). The final section of the Divan consists of rubaiyat (ff 81v-84v) ending with two...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1077
Extent:: 1 text, 85 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7345
Title:: Kitab-i Fa'l-i makbul - كتاب فأل مقبول
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a treatise on horoscopes which is divided into 144 bablar, according to the signs of the Zodiac. The author of the work is not given, but it was probably first written in the 15th century CE. On ff 9v-10r the author mentions that the book dates from the time of Hārūn al-Rash...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 959
Extent:: 1 text, 88 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7348
Title:: Ruzname - روزنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a small almanac compiled by Şeyh Vefa. The manuscript was likely compiled in the 18th century CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 text, 8 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7349
Title:: [A collection of gurrenameler]
Scope & Content:: A collection of various gurrenameler, preceded by a table giving the 99 names of God. The second gurrename (f. 3v) bears the name Yusuf and the date 1086 AH (1675-76 CE). It provides the days of the week on which the first day of each hijri month falls. The manuscript includes a number of impo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century - 18th century
Extent:: Codex, 33 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7350
Title:: [Ottoman Calligraphic Samples]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a collection of calligraphic models, not of the finest execution, numbered 1-27. There are several specimens upon each folio and each type of writing has been copied within a frame ruled with blue and gold. Some of the specimens of larger hands are decorated with floral desi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 text, 20 ff

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