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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12994
Title:: Huluvu'n-nasihin - حلو الناصحين
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a collection of anecdotes, mostly of a religious character, concerning the virtues of the three sacred months, the traditions, the Prophet Muhammad صلعم, and various other topics. This copy does not carry the name of its author, but there is a work of the same title and si...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 180 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13122
Title:: [Religious mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following five texts : (I) ff 2v-69v : Kırk sual, the forty questions put to the Prophet Muhammad صلعم by the Jews, written by Mevlana Furati. It is preceded by a chronological table showing the dates of the Ottoman Sultans up to Mahmud I. This text was copied by İmam ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 5 texts, 102 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13196
Title:: [Tercüme-yi şifa-yi şerif] - [ترجمۀ شفاط شریف]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Arabic al-Shifā’ bi-taᶜrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá (الشفاء بتعريف حقوق المصطفى), a work on the merits of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and the duties of Muslims towards him. The author, Qāḍī ᶜiyāḍ ibn Mūsá al-Yakhshūbī, died in 544 AH (1149 CE). ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1236
Extent:: 1 text, 473 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13222
Title:: Mukaddime-yi Kutbüddin - مقدمۀ قطب الدین
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a guide to Islamic doctrine according to the Hanafi mezhep, compiled by the early Ottoman jurist Kutbüddin el-İzniki (died 821 AH/1418-19 CE). Several prayers have been written at the end of the work. The text contains a single unvan. This manuscript was copied in 924 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 924
Extent:: 1 text, 183 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13407/12
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This section of the volume Or 13407 contains the following three tracts : (I) f 98r : An exposition of four views as to the manner in which the Qur'an was transmitted through Cebrail to the Prophet Muhammad صلعم; (II) ff 98r-v : Risālah fī sūrat al-fātiḥah (رسالة في سورة الفاتحة), a tract on ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1163
Extent:: 4 items, 5 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13407/13
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This section of the volume Or 13407 contains the following five tracts : (I) f 102r : An explanation of the precise meaning of 'Meccan' and 'Medinan' as applied to surat and ayat in the Qur'an ; (II) f 102v : On the the best times for the recitation of the Qur'an ; (III) f 102v : On the be...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1163
Extent:: 5 items, 3 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13527
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following five tracts : (I) ff 1v-68v : Miratu'l-akaid, a treatise on Sunni Muslim doctrine ; (II) ff 68v-70v : Azam-i hazretlerinin vasiyetnamesi, an Ottoman Turkish version of the al-Waṣiyah (الوصية), on the principles of Islam, by Abū Ḥanīfah, founder of the Hanaf...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 5 texts, 123 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13568
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following five texts : (I) ff 1v-51r : el-Maksad el-aksa tercümesi, the Ottoman Turkish translation of an Arabic treatise on Sufism by ᶜabd al-ᶜazīz al-Nasafī entitled al-Maqṣad al-aqṣá (المقصد الاقصى) ; (II) ff 51v-52v : Haza Şerh-i acayıp, notes on the properties of...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 5 texts, 102 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 430/7(2)
Title:: Erivan: the lake in the court of the great Shiah mosque of Guek Jame. Shiahs performing their ablutions. N.B. fancy entering a Shiah mosque in Persia and photographing the pious over their ablutions! Photographer: Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the ablution tank in the mosque, with figures posed on the far side. A man in western dress, presumably one of Lynch's party, stands at the extreme left. Published: H. F. B. Lynch, 'Armenia. Travels and studies' (2 vols., 1901), vol. 1,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1893-1894
Extent:: 1 item

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