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Place Baghdad, Baghdād, Iraq, Asia

1. Add MS 7877

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7877
Title:
Kitab-i Tezkiretü'l-evliya-yi telif el-merhum el-mağfur Murteza Efendi el-şehir bi-Nazmizade - كتاب تذكرة الاولياء تأليف المرحوم المغفور مرتضى افندى الشهير بنظم زاده
Scope & Content:
This volume contains notices of holy men who lie buried in Baghdad and its vicinity. The author, Nazmizade Murteza says in the preface, after mentioning Sultan Mehmet IV as the reigning sovereign, that one of his Vezirs, İbrahim Paşa, being governor of Baghdad in 1077 AH (1666-67 CE), was anxiou...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1150
Extent:
1 text, 91 ff

2. Add MS 7939

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Add MS 7939
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume is a scrapbook, probably written in Baghdad, and containing a collection of short poems and songs, chiefly in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, although there are also a few examples in Persian. The Ottoman Turkish portion consists of anonymous songs designated by the technical names koş...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex, 173 ff

3. Add MS 18071

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Add MS 18071
Title:
Tarih-i Peçevi - تأریخ پچوی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a history of the Ottoman Empire from the beginning of Kanuni Süleyman's reign to the death of Murat IV (1049 AH/1640 CE), by İbrahim Paşa Peçevi. Peçevi, so called from his native place, Pécs (contemporary Hungary), was attached as Secretary to the Grand Vezir Lala Mehmet Pa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1098
Extent:

2 texts, 237 ff

4. Add MS 24961

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 24961
Title:
Tarih-i Peçevi - تأریخ پچوی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the latter half of a history of the Ottoman Empire from the beginning of Kanuni Süleyman's reign to the death of Murat IV (1049 AH/1640 CE), by İbrahim Paşa Peçevi. Peçevi, so called from his native place, Pécs (contemporary Hungary), was attached as Secretary to the Grand V...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 151 ff

5. EAP1390/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1390/1/1
Title:
كتاب الرحمة فى الطب والحكمة
Scope & Content:
This book is a handwritten manuscript. It deals with medicine and wisdom.The date of composition of the original text is Hijri 1005 and it was composed in Baghdad. This manuscript was a part of a majmuʽ along with شرح الكافية في اصول علم الطّبّ (A Commentary on The Ultimate Principles of Medical...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1921-1923
Extent:
174 tiff images

6. Mss Eur C313/32(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C313/32(19)
Title:
Baghdad. The Tomb of Sitt Zobeida, favourite wife of Harun-ar-Rashid, and almost the sole surviving relic of the City of the Caliphs. Photographer: Teague-Jones, Reginald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Sitta Zubayda's Tomb (late Abbasid period, 12th-13th century). Octagonal brick tomb with conical dome. [Gelatin silver print, 90x125mm]. Subjects = Middle Eastern architecture; Teague-Jones Collection; tombs
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 item

7. Or 7208

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7208
Title:
[Two works by Sıdki]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works by Sıdki : ff 2v-24v : An allegorical mesnevi entitled Risale-yi Hüsn ü Dil. On f 3r, the poem mentions that a Persian ustat (Fattāḥī) had written a work of this title, but that there was no version in Ottoman Turkish. Therefore, he had decided to w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 94 ff

8. Or 7260

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7260
Title:
Zübed el-mevahip ve'l-envar - زبد المواهب والانوار
Scope & Content:
This tome contains the first volume of an Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Qur'an (covering sureler I-XVII; al-fātiḥah to al-isrāᵓ) compiled from the Anwār al-tanzīl of Bayḍawī and the Mavāhib-i laduniyah of Ḥusayn Vāiẕ Kāshifī, compiled by Ahmet İbn-i Abdullah Gurabzade in 1096 AH (1684-85 CE)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1123
Extent:
1 text, 301 ff

9. Or 12054

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12054
Title:
[Saadetname] - [سعادتنامه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a translation of the Ravẓat al-shuhadā’ (روضة الشهداء) of Ḥusayn Vā’iẕ Kāshifī made by Cami-i Rumi (Hasanzade Muhyiddin Mehmet Cami of Balıkesir). The text contains a single unvan. This manuscript was copied by İbrahim İbn-i Hasan at Baghdad in 997 AH (1588-89 CE).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
997
Extent:
1 text, 268 ff

10. Or 12107

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12107
Title:
Cami'ü'l-envar fi menakıbu'l-ebrar - جامع الانوار فی مناقب الابرار
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of holy men buried in the vicinity of Baghdad. The author, Nazmizade Hüseyin Murteza Efendi, died in 1134 AH (1721-22 CE). The date at the end of the manuscript (1092 AH/1681-82 CE) is the date of composition of the text. The text contains a table of conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 167 ff