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1431. Or 16517

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16517
Title:
[Ottoman ruzname]
Scope & Content:
An Ottoman Turkish almanac comprising 12 pages of tables of predictions by each day of each month of the year. The manuscript starts with an overview of the year and its correlation to the zodiac (f. 2r), followed by monthly predictions. The monthly predictions are accompanied by advice purporte...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 text, 7 ff

1432. 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

1433. Or 16557

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16557
Title:
Hulasat ül-itibar - خلاصة الاعتبار
Scope & Content:
An account of the Ottoman-Russian War of 1768-74, and of diplomatic missions to Vienna in 1757 and to Berlin in 1763. By Aḥmed Resmī (1112-97/1700-83). This rare and unusually decorated MS. was commissioned by the Ottoman governor of Bosnia, Şerīf Selīm Paşa ibn Şerīf Yūsuf Beg. Dated 1240/18...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1240
Extent:
1 Text, 43 ff

1434. Or 16560

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16560
Title:
[Ottoman poetical anthology]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish poetical anthology. According to an owner’s inscription on f 1r, most of the work is in the hand of Şeyhülislam Veliyyüddin Efendi (died 1182 AH/1768 CE), a noted calligrapher who was also known by the epithet ‘İmad-ı Rûm’ (misspelt in this inscription as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 47 ff

1435. Or 16615

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16615
Title:
Vakfiyeler - واقفییه‌لر
Scope & Content:
I (1v-15r). The donor of the endowment is Emin-zade el-Hacc Ahmed Aga ibn el-Hacc Mehemmed Aga ibn Yahya Çavus (3v), a resident of the 'Isa Beg mahalle in the Tuzcu Sinan Beg area of Kara Firya, in a city referred to as (Mahrusa) which in the case appears to be Selanik (Thessaloniki). The vakf...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 documents, 21 ff

1436. Or 16619

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16619
Title:
Ottoman Turkish Divan
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Divan by an unidentified Ottoman poet. It appears to be slightly incomplete, breaking off in a tahmis. Several folios contain additional text in the margins. There is a lengthy note on f 1r mentioning the Uşşakiye Sufi Order. There is also a significant amount of marginali...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 text, 55 ff

1437. Or 16620

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16620
Title:
[Manuscript containing two texts related to Mevlana Rumi]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works: (1) 3v-37v, Fatihü’l-ebyat – فاتح الابيات This is İsmail Rusuhi Ankaravi’s (died 1041 AH/1631 CE) commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) Mesnevi. (2) 38v-138r: [Risāla-i Sipahsālār] – [...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1032
Extent:
2 texts, 142 ff

1438. Or 16620 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16620 (1)
Title:
Fatihü’l-ebyat - فاتح الابيات
Scope & Content:
This section (3v-37v) contains a commentary in Ottoman Turkish on the first eighteen beyitler of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi’s (died 672 AH/1273 CE) classic Mesnevi-i ma‘nevi. It also includes explanations of some difficult points and words from elsewhere in the Mesnevi. The commentary was authore...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1032
Extent:
34 ff (3v-37v)

1439. Or 16621

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16621
Title:
Sübhatü’l-ahbar -سبحة الاخبار
Scope & Content:
This volume contains genealogies and brief accounts of prophets and rulers down to the end of the tenth century AH/sixteenth century CE, with the main framework consisting of horizontally arranged genealogical tables. This work was translated and adapted from a Persian work titled Tavārīkh-i mul...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1003
Extent:
1 text, 30 ff

1440. Or 16622

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16622
Title:
[Kavsname] - [قوسنامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on Ottoman archery technique, procedure, and etiquette, an account of the history of archery, and a description of archery grounds in Istanbul, Gelibolu (Gallipoli), and Cairo. It was authored by Kemankeş Mustafa Efendi in the seventeenth century. The work compri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1174
Extent:
1 text, 74 ff

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