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1. Add MS 7903

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Add MS 7903
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following six works : (I) ff 8v-12r : Segirname, under the heading Segirname-yi Zu'l-karneyn aleyhi es-salam fi beyan Aristatelis Hekim; (II) ff 12v-41v : A tabirname, or interpretation of dreams, in 53 ebvap, agreeing, substantially, with Add MS 7902 but with a diffe...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
988
Extent:
6 texts, 80 ff

2. Or 3297

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Or 3297
Title:
Ha[za kit]ab Tezkiretü'l-evliya ve bihi nestamin - هذ[ا كت]اب تذكرة الاوليا و به نستعمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages. The writer, who does not give their name, says that the best means to keep steadfast in the faith, and to escape from the contamination of a wicked world, is to dwell on the lives of the saints, and their merits. This induced him to translate a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
985
Extent:
1 text, 149 ff

3. Or 7061

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7061
Title:
Tezkire-yi şuara-yi Mevlviye - تذكرۀ شعراء مولوية
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of 196 poets belonging to the Mevlevi order with selections from their works and was compiled by Mehmet Esrar Dede. The original draft of the work was completed by Galip Dede, Şeyh of the Mevlevihane at Galata. This manuscript was copied by the Mevlevi Derv...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 211 ff

4. Or 9683

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Or 9683
Title:
Menakıb-i Emir Sultan Seyit Mehmet Buhari - مناقب امير سلطان سيد محمد بخارى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a biography of Mehmet Şemseddin İbn-i Ali (Emir Sultan), a saintly Şeyh of the Halveti order who settled in Bursa and married the daughter of Bayezit I. He died in 833 AH (1429-30 CE). The work is by an unidentified author. The text is divided into menkabe. This manuscript...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 80 ff

5. Or 12245

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12245
Title:
[Menakıbname] - [مناقبنامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biography of the Halveti Derviş Şaban-ı Veli, with some account of his successors, by Ömer Fuadi of Kastamonu (died 1046 AH/1636 CE). This manuscript was copied in the late 17th century or early 18th century CE.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 89 ff

6. Or 12494

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12494
Title:
Vilayetname-yi Hacı Bektaş Veli el-Horasani - ولایتنامۀ حاجی بکتاش ولی الخراسانی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a biography of Hacı Bektaş, the founder of the Bektaşı Order, and his successors. The work is also called the Menakıb-ı Hacı Bektaş-i Veli. At the end of the Vilayetname comes a tract (ff 155v-197r), in an identical hand, entitled Virani, in mixed prose and verse. This is ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1263
Extent:

2 texts, 198 ff

7. Or 12630

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Or 12630
Title:
Hediyetü'l-ihvan - هدية الاخوان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of the holiest members of the Halveti Sufi order as composed by Mehmet Nazmi Efendi (died 1112 AH/1700-01 CE). This work is Nazmi Efendi's only prose composition. In addition to the usual biographical information found in a silsile, it also provides important...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 207 ff

8. Or 12631

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12631
Title:
[Two works by Süleyman İbn-i Abdullah Nahifi Efendi]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works by Süleyman İbn-i Abdullah Nahifi Efendi: (I) ff 1v-10v : Risaletü'l-hazriye, a text regarding the life and miracles of Seyit Hüseyin Efendi; (II) ff 11r-74v : Kitab-i Tezkiretü'l-müteahhirin, biographies of Sufi contemporaries of the author. Th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 74 ff

9. Or 12653

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12653
Title:
[Ottoman texts on religion]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following four texts on Islam : (I) ff 2v-18r : Ta’wīlāt Ḥaḍrat Jamāl al-Dīn Khalwatī (Chalabī Khalīfah) (تأويلات حضرت جمال الدين خلوتى (چلبی خلیفه)), in Arabic, copied in 1246 AH (1830-31 CE) ; (II) ff 18v-20r : Aṭwār sabᶜa sayyidunā al-Shaykh ᶜabd al-Qādir al-Gīlānī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
4 texts, 108 ff

10. Or 12758

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12758
Title:
Kitabu'l-silsile - كتاب السلسله
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a spiritual genealogy of the Celveti Şeyhler, with biographical information by İsmail Hakkı Bursevi (died 1137 AH/1724-25 CE). The work is more commonly referred to as the Silsilename-yi Celvetiye. This manuscript was copied by Hasan İbn-i Mustafa at Çorlu in 1171 AH (1757...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1171
Extent:
1 text, 208 ff