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Subject Geography, Arab

1. Add MS 7892

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7892
Title:
[Mecmua of texts by Mustafa İbn-i Ali Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following four texts : (I) ff 1v-26v : Teshilü'l-mikat, an astronomical treatise by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii, on the sinuated quadrant (rub'-i mücip) and its use, consisting of a Mukaddime and twenty-five ebvap ; (II) ff 26v-39r : Kifayetü'l-v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
4 texts, 70 ff

2. Add MS 7896

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 7896
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-zaman ve haridetü'l-avan - تحفة الزمان و خريدة الاوان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a cosmographical work by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, Muvakkıt of the Sultan Selim Camii in İstanbul. The preface is mainly taken up with a general review of all the subjects expounded in the work. It is cut short in the present copy by the loss of one or more leaves after f 4. The ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 182 ff

3. IO Islamic 1026

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1026
Title:
Tarjūmah-' al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī ترجومۀ المسالک و الممالک
Scope & Content:
Persian adaptation of al-Istakhrī's al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik Decorations: Map: Folio 3v: 'The Western Region', i.e.The Straits of Gibraltar, southernSpain(right) andNorth Africa(left). The sea is blue: town are circles of various colours and mountains are roughly triangular. Dimensions [written]...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
95 folios

4. Or 12094

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12094
Title:
Risale-yi Mukantarat - رسالۀ مقنطرت
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on the mukantarat or circles attached to the quadrant and their use, in a mukaddime and 12 ebvap written by Mustafa İbn-i Ali el-Muvakkıt (died around 960 AH/1552-53 CE). There is a table giving the longitude and latitude of various locations (ff 117r-118v). T...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 119 ff

5. Or 12633

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12633
Title:
Menazirü'l-avalim - مناظر العوالم
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a large cosmographical work written at Damascus in 1006 AH (1598 CE) by Mehmet Aşık İbn-i Ömer ibn-i Bayezit, consisting of a mukaddime, two ebvap, and a hatime. It is one of the first examples of the transition from Mediaeval geography to modern geography, and was used exte...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1142
Extent:
1 text, 586 ff

6. Or 12824

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12824
Title:
Tercüme-yi Haridetü'l-acayıp ve feridetü'l-garayıp - ترجمۀ خریدة العجائب و فريدة الغرائب
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a translation of a treatise on geography and natural history written originally in Arabic by Ibn al-Wardī (died 850 AH/1446-47 CE). The translator's name is provided as Mahmud el-Hatip in Karatay and as Mahmud İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Dilşad according to Babinger. The date of th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 198 ff

7. Or 13908

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13908
Title:
1 copy of ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1600-1699
Extent:
173 f

8. Or 13935

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13935
Title:
1 copy of ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
357 f

9. Or 14299

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14299
Title:
1 copy of Map
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
1 f

10. Or 15059

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15059
Title:
Volume containing several works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1800-1800
Extent:
152 ff