The Şerhü'l-kebair, a text composed by İsmail Hakkı Bursevi in 1116 AH (1704 CE) regarding the Islamic legal concepts of fiqh and kalam, with particular focus on explanations of the major sins. The manuscript features one unvan on f. 1r illuminated with floral patterns in light blue, light pin...
An Ottoman firman bearing the tughra of Sultan Abdülhamit I, who reigned from 1774 CE to 1789 CE. The firman is dated eva’ile'l-şahr şuvvalu'l-mübarek fī sene 1208 AH (early May 1793 CE).
As series of petitions and administrative documents, some of which appear to be from the Kaymakam of the Kaza of Kūt al-Amārah in present day Iraq. The administrative documents and petitions contain dates that range from 1306-1324 according to the Rumi calendar, while a solitary Persian letter...
An Ottoman legal document dated eva'il Ramazan (?) 1265 AH (late July 1868 CE) in the city of Galata (Istanbul) regarding sale, possibly of land (?). The document contains the seals of three parties to the sale, including Mehmet Seyit, Mehmet Rıf'at, and Emin el-Huyun (?), the last of which is...
Kitab-i Servisî ma'a şerhu'l-burde - كتاب سرويسى مع شرح البرده
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a commentary on the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of Abū ᶜabdullāh Muḥammad ibn Saᶜīd al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH/1294-95 CE or 696 AH/1296-97 CE) by Seyit Ahmet İbn-i Mustafa known as Lali (died 971 AH/1563-64 CE).The text is a Sufi poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم...
A bilingual tract on printing in Egypt entitled Vakayı-yı mazi, with an additional title, Al-waqāyiʾ al-miṣriyah, found at the bottom of the page. The page was printed on 25 Jumādá al-Awwāl 1244 AH (Tuesday, 3 December 1828) in Bulaq, Egypt at the Maṭbaʾat Ṣāḥib al-Futūḥāt. The item also contai...
Ten technical drawings from the Ottoman Empire. The drawings illustrate a number of different routine and famous experiments phenomena in physics (including optics) and chemistry. They are accompanied by alpha-numerical indicators in Ottoman and lack textual explanations. Human figures in the ...
A collection of typewritten documents pertaining to Turkish-Cypriot organizations in the immediate pre-independence era. ff. 1-47 : Files pertaining to Volkan, founded in 1955. The archive contains letters in both English and Turkish to various individuals, including Dighenis (nom de guerre of...