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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language Turkish, Ottoman

1. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

2. Harley MS 500

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 500
Title:
[Ottoman Turkish-Persian-Arabic Vocabularies]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following three texts: ff 20v-39v : 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). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Mu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
3 texts, 138 ff

3. Harley MS 3273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3273
Title:
İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 text, 320 ff

4. Harley MS 3280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3280
Title:
Hümayun-name - همايون نامه
Scope & Content:
The fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. Ali Çelebi was a native of Edirne and was commonly known as Vasi' Alisi because he had started his career as assistant, or müeyyid, to the professor Mevlana Abdulvasi'. Abd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 text, 326 ff

5. Harley MS 5454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5454
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains 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). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1090
Extent:
1 text, 29 ff

6. Harley MS 5457

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5457
Title:
Cedvel-i Gurrename, Rakam-i Gurre-yi Nücumi ve Rakam-i Gürre-yi Şera''i naklihi Şeyh Vefa - جدول غره نامه رقم غرۀ نجومی و رقم غرۀ شرعی نقله شیح وفا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the calendar of Şeyh Vefa. The second table of the work (f 2r) shows the day of the week on which each of the Hijri months begins in the years 1107-14 AH (1695-1705 CE). The calendar has one page for each of the Syrian months, from Azer to Şubat. Şeyh Vefa, to whom the R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1107
Extent:
1 text, 9 ff

7. Harley MS 5458

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5458
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains 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). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 20 ff

8. Harley MS 5466

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5466
Title:
Arabic-Ottoman Turkish Vocabulary
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary that does not include the author''s name. In a prologue in mesnevi, the work is described as an improved and enlarged recension of the vocabulary composed by Ferişteoğlu, the versification of which, according to the author, was n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Latin, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1101
Extent:
1 text, 48 ff

9. Harley MS 5485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5485
Title:
Şerh-i Gulistan - شرح گلستان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish paraphrase of the Gulistān (گلستان) of Saᶜdī by Şemi. The author says in the preface that he had withdrawn from the commerce of men, and was living in contented seclusion, when he was requested by Mehmet Çelebi, Debir (Steward) of the Padişah''s gardens,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1000
Extent:

2 texts, 239 ff

10. Harley MS 5487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5487
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains 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). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 19 ff