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1701. Or 16402

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16402
Title:
Eş‘ar - اشعار
Scope & Content:
Two didactic religious poems. Neither their titles nor their authors have been identified. This manuscript contains many errors of spelling and orthography. 1 (1v-8v): On worship, doctrine, and ethics. Begins: Besmelẹ Ḥaḳḳa şükridelim (sic) her bār * yaratdı ṣūreti (sic, i.e. ṣūret-i) insān ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1231
Extent:
1 text; 8 ff.

1702. Or 16405

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16405
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a prayer book bringing together Quranic verses, litanies, and supplications in elaborate calligraphic script. The text opens with six chapters (sureler) of the Quran, five of which are commonly found in such devotional compilations, as well as the less common Sure-i Mücadele...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Several texts, 60 ff

1703. Or 16421

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16421
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an anthology of 9th and 10th century AH/15th and 16th century CE Ottoman Turkish verse. In the margins throughout are penciled annotations in English by the former owner of the manuscript, the Turcologist C.S. Mundy. His annotations identify the author of each poem and his n...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 78 ff

1704. Or 16422

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16422
Title:
[Şah u Geda] - [شاه و كدا]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the poem Şah u Geda by Yahya Efendi of the Dukagjini family of Albania. It was likely composed during his exile to the Sancak of Zvornik, Bosnia. This is the fifth poem in Yahya Efendi's Hamse, and the one described by Gibb as his most popular. The text features a consider...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1020
Extent:
1 text, 69 ff

1705. Or 16423

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16423
Title:
Netaicü’l-fünun ve mehasinü’l-mütun – نتائج الفنون ومحاسن المتون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a concise encyclopaedia reviewing the twelve principal branches of learning by the poet and religious scholar Yahya ibn-i Pir Ali (died 1007 AH/1599 CE), whose mahlas was Nev‘i. Nev‘i was born in 940 AH/1533-34 CE in Malkara. His father was a Halveti shaykh, and it was from...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1016
Extent:
1 text, 133 ff

1706. Or 16424

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16424
Title:
[Siyer-i Nebi] - [سير نبى]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part of a biography of the Prophet Muhammad in Ottoman Turkish. It is based on volumes five and six of Mustafa ibn-i Yusuf Darir’s Siyer-i Nebi, covering the same subjects but narrating them in a different way. Darir himself was active in the later 8th century AH/14th centur...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 97 ff

1707. Or 16425

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16425
Title:
Kanunname-yi cedid - قانون نامۀ جدید
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Kanunname-yi Cedid, a compilation of laws and regulations put together during the reign of Mehmed IV (reigned 1058-1099 AH/1648-1687 AD). It takes into account the judgments of a range of jurists from the period of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 926-974 AH/1520-1566 C...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1224
Extent:
1 text, 83 ff

1708. Or 16426

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16426
Title:
[Enfesü’l-cevahir] – [انفس الجواهر]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the third volume (of what would originally have been four) of an Old Anatolian Turkish version of the commentary on the Quran by the theologian, jurisconsult, and Sufi of Transoxania Ebü’l-Leys Semerkandi (died 373 AH/983 CE). Ebü’l-Leys was a prolific writer in a number of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1007
Extent:
1 text, 259 ff

1709. 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

1710. 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

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