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831. Or 7351

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7351
Title:
[Ottoman Devotional Book]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an untitled devotional book written apparently for the author's son. The author, who was a native of Crimea, mentions a Sultan Ahmet as reigning (f 2v), and later Saadet Geray Han and Qaplan Geray Han (f 3r). The Sultan must therefore be Ahmet II (reigned 1703-30 CE). The ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1129
Extent:
1 text, 59 ff

832. Or 7352

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7352
Title:
Müsellesname - مثلثنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified vocabulary in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic giving examples of the various metres common throughout the literary canons of the three languages. The manuscript was compiled by Şakir (mentioned on ff 4r, 4v and 46v) in 1210 AH (1795-96 CE).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1210
Extent:
1 text, 48 ff

833. Or 7353

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7353
Title:
[Tarih-i Peçevi] - [تآریخ پچوی]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a history of the Ottoman Empire from 926 AH (1519-20 CE) to 1049 AH (1639-40 CE; i.e. to the death of Murat IV) by İbrahim Peçevi (died 1061 AH/1650 CE). This copy contains a table of contents (ff 2v-9r) and a single unvan. The manuscript was likely copied in the early 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 233 ff

834. Or 7354

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7354
Title:
[Kelile ve Dimne] - [كليله و دمنه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a fragment (Bablar VI-X) of an unidentified Ottoman Turkish translation of the Persian version of Kalīlah va Dimnah which was made by Naṣrallāh circa 1144 AH (1733-34 CE). This translation differs from Ethé 2089, since the chapter headings are not in Arabic, but in Persian, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 27 ff

835. Or 7356

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7356
Title:
[Cevami' el-hikayat ve levami' el-rivayat] - [جوامع الحكايات و لوامع الروايات]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the well-known collection of anecdotes by ᶜAufī, translated into Ottoman Turkish by Salih İbn-i Celal in 957 AH (1550-51 CE) at the order of Prince Beyazit, son of Süleyman I (see f 304 v). This copy corresponds in text to Part 1, Chapter XI (Dar firāsat-i arbāb-i kiyāsat), ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1029
Extent:
1 text, 305 ff

836. Or 7359

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7359
Title:
[Divan-i Mahtumi] - [ديوان مختومى]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collated poetry of Mehmet Vahit of Istanbul, who took the mahlas Mahtumi. In some poems found in this volume he is also called Mahtum or Vahit. The date of his death is given by Karatay (II, p. 183) as 1145 AH (1732-33 CE), apparently on the authority of the Tezkere of R...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 texts, 129 ff

837. Or 7369

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7369
Title:
[Divan-i Fıtnat Hanım] - [ديوان فطنت خانم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the poetic works of Fıtnat, a female poet who died in 1194 AH (1780 CE). The work begins with a na't, followed by a tahmis on a na't of Es'at Efendi (f 2r); Kaside-yi Bahriye (f 5r); and other similar poems (ff 6r-v); chronograms (ff 7r-29v) and gazeller (ff 30v-42v). Then c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1201
Extent:
1 text, 50 ff

838. Or 7462

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7462
Title:
Fazailü'l-Cihad - فضائل الجهاد
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a work on the merits of Jihad translated by Baki (died 1008 AH/1599-1600 CE) from the Arabic work entitled Mashāriᶜ al-ashwaq ilá maṣāriᶜ al-ᶜushshaq of Aḥmad bin Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī. The item shows evidence of water staining towards the end of the text. The manuscript i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
975
Extent:
1 text, 294 ff

839. Or 7466

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7466
Title:
[Münşeat-i Veysi-yi Merhum] - [منشأات ويسى مرحوم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of letters attributed to Veysi (died 1037 AH/1627-28 CE) on the first folio. Many of the letters bear rubrics stating the names of the addressees but not of the writers. It is likely that, as several of the letters are addressed to contemporaries of Veysi with w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 text, 53 ff

840. Or 7467

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7467
Title:
Reşadü'l-İbad - رشاد العباد
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an explanation by a certain Zati of the symbolic language of the Sufis. This is most probably the earlier and better-known fo the poets of this name who died in 953 AH (1546-47 CE). The reasons against attributing it to Süleyman Zati (died 1151/1738-39 CE) are the general te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 21 ff

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