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1. Add MS 19804

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 19804
Title:
[Münşeat-i Veysi Merhum] - [منشأات ويسى مرحوم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of letters written by Veysi Efendi and some other writers. It begins with a letter by Şeyhi Efendi written back to İstanbul in order to announce Sultan Selim's conquest of Egypt in 923 AH (1517 CE). No other notice of the author has been found. The letters hav...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1075
Extent:
Codex, 90 ff

2. Add MS 88942/1/314

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/314
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Talbotypes')
Scope & Content:
A notebook with an accompanying loose sheet, neither of which are in Talbot's hand. The notebook contains ten brief copied extracts of letters (1806-1823) from Lady Elisabeth Feilding to Lady Mary Talbot, and includes an anecdote by Lady Harriot Frampton; the extracts have been selected with a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 14 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

3. Or 7466

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7466
Title:
[Münşeat-i Veysi-yi Merhum] - [منشأات ويسى مرحوم]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of letters attributed to Veysi (died 1037 AH/1627-28 CE) on the first folio. Many of the letters bear rubrics stating the names of the addressees but not of the writers. It is likely that, as several of the letters are addressed to contemporaries of Veysi with w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 text, 53 ff

4. Or 7477

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7477
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume is a codex consisting of the following works: ff 6v-36v : Zafername-yi Gaza-yi Kaminçe, an account by Nabi of the capture of Kamieniec (see GSO, p. 237), preceded by some Arabic and Persian poems of Sa'di and Nizami, with some Ottoman Turkish verses by Nabi and others. The text was...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:

Codex, 250 ff

5. Or 10958

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10958
Title:
İnşa-i mergub-i cedid - انشاء مرغوب جديد
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of model letters, followed by some arithmetical calculations and a medical prescription. All the letters are dated 1249 AH (1833-34 CE), which is likely the date of their transcription as well.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1249
Extent:

1 text, 40 ff