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Language Turkish, Ottoman Subject Divination--Early works to 1800

11. Or 12418

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12418
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following four texts : (I) ff 1v-37r : Genealogical tables of various Muslim dynasties, starting with the Mamluks and ending with the Selcuks, with a brief outline of each reign ; (II) ff 37r-43v : Tabirname-yi muhtasar, short tracts on remel (divination) and on the i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
4 texts, 89 ff

12. Or 12669

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12669
Title:
Kiyafet el-firaset - كيافة الفراست
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on palmistry with diagrams composed by Nesimi in the reign of Murat III (reigned 1574-95 CE). The text contains seven diagrams of open palms with alchemical (?) symbols drawn on them, and, occasionally, explanatory text, on ff 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r, 4v, 5r, and 10v. Ther...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1318-1319
Extent:
2 texts, 24 ff

13. Or 13909

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13909
Title:
Semere, şerh-i Kitab-i şecere - ثمره شرح كتاب شجره
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Kitab-i secere, a treatise on geomancy, as well as a commentary on it. According to the preface, the book Şecere was originally composed in Greek; it was rendered into Arabic by Imām Mā Shā’ Allāh Miṣrī, then subsequently from Arabic into Persian and thence into Ottoman ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 148 ff

14. Or 14129

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14129
Title:
[Two Ottoman Turkish texts]
Scope & Content:
This volume contanis the following two texts: (II) ff 1v-20v : Risale-yi ilm-i kiyafet ve firaset, a treatise on the arts of physiognomy, compiled from Arabic and Persian sources by el-Hacc Mustafa İbn-i Evrenos for Sultan Selim (likely Selim II, reigned 974-82 HA/1566-74 CE). The present manu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 55 ff

15. Or 15756

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15756
Title:
[Falname-i Ca‘fer Sadık] – [فالنامهٔ جعفر صادق]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a book of divination by taking omens (fal) attributed to Ja‘far al-Ṣādiq (died 148 AH/765 CE), the sixth Imam of the Shi’a (and some Sunnis). Works of this kind were frequently ascribed to the Imams, especially Ali and his great-grandson Ja‘far. They could also be ascribed t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 50 ff

16. Or 16556

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16556
Title:
Falname - فألنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish manual of divination. Like many other such works, it is attributed to Cafer es-Sadık, the sixth Imam of the Shia. Part of the divination material consists of circular tables, each listing names (e.g. of Caliphs, chieftains, tribes, animals, trees and birds...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 text, 53 ff

17. Royal MS 16 B XXI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B XXI
Title:
[Kitab-i ihtilaçname] - [كتاب احتلاج نامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Segirname or treatise in tabulated form showing the omens to be drawing from throbbings in various parts of the body, under the heading Kitab-i ihtilaçname. It gives, in five columns, the import assigned to the throbbings by Cafer Sadık, the Prophet Daniel, İskander Zu'l-k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 7 ff (ff 13-19)