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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7063
Title:: Kitab-i Tezkiretü'ş-şuara - كتاب تذكرة الشعراء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets compiled by Latifi (Abdullatif Çelebi) in 953 AH (1546-47 CE). The text contains a single unvan. The manuscript was copied in two different nesih hands, with the break between the two occuring at f 79r. The latter portion of the m...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1006
Extent:: 1 text, 201 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7064
Title:: [Kitab-i Tezkiretü'ş-şuara] - [كتاب تذكرة الشعراء]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets by Latifi (Abdullatif Çelebi), compiled in 953 AH (1546-47 CE). The text contains a single unvan. The manuscript was copied in 982 AH (1574-75 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 982
Extent:: 1 text, 136 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7065
Title:: Tezkiretü'ş-şuara - تذكرة الشعراء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected biographies of poets active between 1000-1051 AH (1591-1641 CE) compiled by Seyit Mehmet Rıza (Zehrimarzade). The date of completion of the text (1050 AH/1639-40 CE) appears in a couplet at the end. A table of contents for the work is included on f 45r and cont...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1056
Extent:: 1 text, 45 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7066
Title:: Riyazu'ş-şuara - رياض الشعراء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets completed in 1018 AH (1609 CE) by Riyazi (Mehmet İbn-i Mustafa), who died in 1054 AH (1644 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, 103 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7067
Title:: Riyazu'ş-şuara - رياض الشعراء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets completed in 1018 AH (1609 CE) by Riyazi (Mehmet İbn-i Mustafa), who died in 1054 AH (1644 CE). This copy is provided with a table of contents (ff 1r-3r) made in 1174 AH (1760-61 CE) by Ali İbn-i Ahmet. The manuscript was ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1056
Extent:: 1 text, 78 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7068
Title:: Tezkiretü'ş-şuara - تذكرة الشعراء
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a continuation of the Tezkire produced by Safai in 1134 AH (1721-22 CE), written by Mehmet Emin Salim, Mirzazade, containing biographies of 415 poets and selections from their works. It contains a table of contents (ff 1v-5r). The text contains a single unvan. The manusc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 text, 201 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7508
Title:: Ayine-i zurefa - آیینۀ ظرفا
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman historians by Cemaleddin Mehmet Karslızade (died 1262 AH/1845-46 CE). On the first folio is a note by the historian Lutfi (dated 1322 AH/1904-05 CE) to the effect that he used items from this work in writing the first volume of his history. The w...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 text, 52 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8377
Title:: 1 copy of Tarjumah-’i Makārim al-akhlāq by Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan, d. 1153
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1600-1699
Extent:: 210 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8382
Title:: 1 copy of Muḥarriq al-qulūb by Narāqī, Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Abī Z̲arr, d. 1794 or 5
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1832-1833
Extent:: 471 ff

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