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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Sloane MS 1-4100 Language Turkish, Ottoman Subject Vocabularies

1. Sloane MS 3113

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3113
Title:
Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1105
Extent:
1 text, 97 ff

2. 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

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