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1641. Or 16120

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Or 16120
Title:
El-vasfu’l-kamil fi ahvali’l-veziri’l-adil - الوصف الكامل في احوال الوزير العادل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a biography of the Bosnian vizier Murtaza Paşa (1000-1045 AH/1592-1635 CE). The work was composed by Nergisi Mehmed Efendi (died 1044 AH/1635 CE), perhaps the most distinguished writer of ornate Ottoman prose (inşa). Nergisi was born in Sarajevo between the years 988-994 AH...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Later 11th century
Extent:
1 text, 78 ff

1642. Or 16121

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16121
Title:
[Süleymanname] - [سليماننامه]
Scope & Content:
A lengthy folk narrative, in prose with interspersed passages in verse, by Firdevsi-i Rumi (857-ca. 918/1453-ca. 1512 CE). The contents of this Süleyman-name include stories of the prophet Solomon and of other pre-Islamic Prophets, along with elements of the epic history of pre-Islamic Iran (as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1067
Extent:
1 text, 122 ff

1643. Or 16122

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains three texts: ff 2v-26v : [Menakıb-ı Ebu Ali Sina ve karındaşı Ebu’l-Haris]. This section contains mythical narratives of the extraordinary exploits of Ebu Ali Sina (Avicenna, who is the subject of a number of such tales) and his brother Ebu’l-Haris, both of whom had mastere...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
3 texts, 236 ff

1644. Or 16122 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (1)
Title:
[Menakıb-ı Ebu Ali Sina ve karındaşı Ebu’l-Haris] - [مناقب ابو علي سينا وقرنداشى ابو الحارث]
Scope & Content:
This section contains mythical narratives of the extraordinary accomplishments of Ebu Ali Sina (Avicenna, who is the subject of a number of such tales) and his twin brother Ebu’l-Haris based on their mastery of alchemy. In the present manuscript, the word sima is used in error for simya in the t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1172
Extent:
24 ff

1645. Or 16122 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (2)
Title:
Acaibü’l-mahlukat - عجائب المخلوقات
Scope & Content:
This section contains extracts from Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican’s (died after 870 AH/1466 CE) Ottoman Turkish translation of Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnī’s (died 682 AH/1283 CE) ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt, an Arabic work on geography and cosmography. Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican’s translation was the most ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Later 12th century
Extent:
40 ff

1646. Or 16122 (3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (3)
Title:
Haza kitab Seyyid Battal Gazi - هذا كتاب سيد بطال غازي
Scope & Content:
This section contains a lengthy Ottoman Turkish version of the popular narrative recounting the heroic exploits of Seyyid Battal Gazi. Little is known of the historical Seyyid Battal, save that he was a gazi who fought under the Umayyads in the early second century AH/eighth century CE. He took...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1183
Extent:
167 ff

1647. Or 16124

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16124
Title:
Maktel-i Hüseyin - مقتل حسين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an anonymously authored narrative account (dasitan) of the martyrdom of Imam Hüseyin, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet, in 61 AH/680 CE. The text would have been recited annually on the anniversary of his death on the tenth of Muharrem. The text opens with an exordium...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1125
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

1648. Or 16125

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16125
Title:
[Tuhfetü’z-zaman ve haridetü’l-evan] - [تحفة الزمان وخريدة الاوان]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on cosmography and on determining prayer times authored in 932 AH/1526 CE by the Ottoman astronomer, astrologer, and timekeeper, Mustafa ibn-i Ali el-Muvakkit (died 979/1571). Mustafa ibn-i Ali was born in Istanbul in the early tenth century AH/sixteenth century ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1072
Extent:
1 text, 222 ff

1649. Or 16140

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16140
Title:
Fütuhu’ş-Şam - فتوح الشام
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a free translation of the Arabic-language Futūḥ al-Shām, which chronicles the conquest of Syria under the caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar. Its translation into Ottoman Turkish was executed by the author and poet Mustafa ibn-i Yusuf Darir Erzenü’r-Rumi (of Erzurum), an author activ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:
1 text, 173 ff

1650. Or 16141

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16141
Title:
Müzekki’n-nüfus - مزكّي النفوس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Müzekki’n-nüfus (‘The purifier of souls’), a treatise on Sufism and Islamic ethics by the renowned early Ottoman poet and mystic Eşrefoğlu Rumi (died 874 AH/1469-70 CE), also known as Eşrefzade. Eşrefoğlu was born in Iznik in the late eighth century AH/fourteenth centur...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1001
Extent:
1 text, 311 ff

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