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21. Mss Eur F112/400

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/400
Title:
‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran.’
Scope & Content:
Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

22. Or 3297

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3297
Title:
Ha[za kit]ab Tezkiretü'l-evliya ve bihi nestamin - هذ[ا كت]اب تذكرة الاوليا و به نستعمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages. The writer, who does not give their name, says that the best means to keep steadfast in the faith, and to escape from the contamination of a wicked world, is to dwell on the lives of the saints, and their merits. This induced him to translate a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
985
Extent:
1 text, 149 ff

23. Or 7507

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7507
Title:
[Ottoman biographical texts]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains biographical works, mainly by Osmanzade Ahmet Tayip, including the following: (I) ff 1v-31r : Hadikat ül-müluk, a short history of the Ottoman Sultans; (II) ff 32v-83v : Hadikat ül-vüzera; (III) ff 84v-102v : The continuation of the previous work by Dilaver Ağazade Ömer ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex, 180 ff

24. Or 7553

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7553
Title:
Teracim-i Ehali-i Fetva - تراجم اهالى فتوى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains brief biographies of thirteen individuals who held the office of Şeyh-ül-İslâm, compiled by Müstakimzade (Süleyman Saadeddin), who died in 1202 AH (1787-88 CE). The manuscript was likely copied in the 18th century CE.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 42 ff

25. Or 7598

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7598
Title:
Nuzhat al-abrār fī manāqib al-akhyār - نزهة الأبرار في مناقب الأخيار
Scope & Content:
This copy of the Nuzhat al-abrār fī manāqib al-akhyār, a biography of Abū Ḥanīfah and some of his early followers, contains Ottoman Turkish headings and some marginal notes, mostly in ink but also a few in pencil. The manuscript was copied in 867 AH (1462-63 CE), but the notes are probably fro...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
867
Extent:
1 text, 277 ff

26. Or 9469

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9469
Title:
Tezkiretü'l-evliya - تذكرة الاوليا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Taẕkirat al-avliyā (تذكرة الاوليا) of Farīd al-Dīn ᶜaṭṭār containing 28 biographies from Jaᶜfar al-Ṣādiq to Sahl al-Tustarī. The translation is that of Sinan Paşa (died 891 AH/1486 CE). The work begins with a table of contents (ff 1v-2r)...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
955
Extent:
1 text, 164 ff

27. Or 11994

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11994
Title:
Tezkiretü'l-evliya - تذكرة الاوليا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a slightly abbreviated version of the Taẕkirat al-avliyā (تذكرة الاوليا) of ᶜaṭṭār. This version, which does not bear the author's name, is arranged in 65 ebvap and was made in the early 15th century CE. A large portion of the manuscript, mostly towards the end, is in the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 text, 255 ff

28. Or 12719

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12719
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-ragıbin li-Ehlü'l-yakin - تحفة الراغبين لاهل اليقين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an appendix to the Hadikatü'l-cevami of Hafız Hüseyin İbn-i İsmail Ayvansarayı (died 1201 AH/1786-87 CE) by Sıdkızade Ahmet Reşit Efendi. It gives the dates of death of prominent men, the majority of them from the Ulema, and their place of burial whenever possible. Unlike th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 37 ff

29. Or 12873

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12873
Title:
Esami-i şuara-i Amid - اسامى شعراى آمد
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a tezkere of poets connected with Amid (Diyarbakır) compiled in 1293 AH (1876-77 CE) by Ali Emiri. The manuscript was copied in 1948 CE by Tahir Olgun.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 text, 86 ff

30. Or 12874

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12874
Title:
Tezkire-yi Güfti - تذکرۀ گفتی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of 103 Ottoman Turkish poets by Ali Güfti of Edirne, who died in 1088 AH (1677-78 CE). The work is in verse throughout. This manuscript was copied by Tahir Olgun, likely in Amid (Diyarbakır) in 1945.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 text, 88 ff