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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5490
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains texts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian. The following 17 texts are in Ottoman Turkish, unless otherwise noted: (I) ff 4r-16v : Necatu'l-garik, a religious poem by Hüdai under the heading 'Haza risale fi'l-cem' ve'l-tefrik el-müsemma bi-Necatu'l-garik.' The author's n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 21 texts, 374 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5493
Title:: [Fragment of Kıssa-yı Ebu Müslim]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a detached portion of the story of Ebu Müslim, a well-known romance, the hero of which is the celebrated general who seated the Abbasids on the throne and was put to death by Khālif Abū Manṣūr in 137 AH (755 CE). The text is not divided into sections as in Or 1128. It is d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 118 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5494
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:: English, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1062
Extent:: 1 text, 49 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5504
Title:: Naḥmanides' Torah commentary. Perush ha-Torah by Naḥmanides, 1195-1270 פרוש התורה
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew The commentary of Naḥmanides (Moshe ben Naḥman aka Ramban) on the Pentateuch. Fols 1r-323v Author: Naḥmanides (משה בן נחמן) Perush ha-Torah פרוש התורה Filiation: Cf. author's colophon, folio 343v to the one in The British Library, n.d..Harley MS 5503, George Margoliouth, C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1400-1499
Extent:: 323 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5522
Title:: Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a book of remel, the science of divining through the use of dots. Its arrangement is largely similar to the text found in Harley MS 262. In a preface, the book is said to have been written for Hārūn al-Rashīd by 12 sages selected out of twelve thousand, and to comprise 144...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 76 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5525
Title:: Collection of philosophical writings. Mafteaḥ ha-῾inyanim by Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th -13th century מפתח הענינים and 3 other texts
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Philosophical writings. Fols 3r-17v Author: Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th -13th century (חריזי, יהודה בן שלמה) Mafteaḥ ha-῾inyanim מפתח הענינים Note: There is a Latin title, 'Directorum Dubitantium authore Rabbi Moysis ab Egiptus', on fol. 3r. Explicit: נשלמה הפת...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1400-1499
Extent:: 424 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5531
Title:: Ba῾al ha-lashon by Joseph Zarka.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Grammatical writing. Author: Zarka, Joseph (זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה) Ba῾al ha-lashon. בעל הלשון Note: See Roth, ed Cecil. Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth. Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971. p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1474
Extent:: 286 folios

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