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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7268
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following works: ff 1v-16r : A Kanunname copied in 959 AH (1551-52 CE); ff 17r-42v : The Mizanu'l-hak of Kâtip Çelebi; ff 42v-45v : An incomplete copy of the İlham al-mukaddes min al-faiz al-akdas of Kâtip Çelebi; ff 46v-66v : Risale fi'l-ilm il-inşa, a tract dedica...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex, 98 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8881
Title:: [Mecmua of Ottoman bureaucratic documents]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following three bureaucratic documents : (I) ff 1v-39v : A manuscript copy of the printed version of Ahkamu'l-meriyet fi arazi'l-emiriye, which is an official inventory of the pasture lands in the Ottoman dominions. The inventory was compiled by Ahmet Arif Hikmet İbn-i...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 3 texts, 105 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11559
Title:: [Collection of four buyuruldular]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following four buyuruldular : (I) A document for the protection of Lord Sandon and Lord Carnarvon (written اوقادين so rather dubious) traveling from Erzurum to Trabzon. The document is dated 1269 AH (1852-53 CE) ; (II) Another safe conduct for the same individuals, t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1250-1269
Extent:: 4 texts, 4 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13508
Title:: [Kanunname-i cedid] - [قانوننامۀ جدید]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a collection of imperial ordinances and fetava concerning land tenure, fiefs, evkâf, and taxation in Budin and other vilayets. These date from the reign of Sultan Süleyman I, but the work was compiled under Selim II and contains later fetava apart from those of Şeyh-ül-İslâm...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 42 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16280
Title:: Vakfiye - واقفيه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the vakfiye or deed of endowment drawn up for Mehmet Ali Paşa (Muhammad Ali Pasha) in respect of the medrese and library which he founded at Kavala, his hometown, in Aegean Macedonia (contemporary Greece/Egejska Makedonija). For the codicil to this deed, see Or 16281. Mehmet...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1228
Extent:: 1 text, 7 ff

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