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Or 8725

Record Id:

032-003463541

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003463541

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100086749779.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 8725

Title:

Mecmua - مجموعه

Scope & Content:

A manuscript containing two works :

(1) (2v-71v) Silsilename-i Celveti, a spiritual pedigree of the Celveti şeyhler with biographical information, originally penned by İsmail Hakkı Bursevi Nu'man ibn-i Hacci İsmail Efendi in 1165 AH / 1751-52 CE.

(2) (73v-107v) Burhan ul-arifin, an exposition of Sufism by Selim Baba, whose spiritual guide was Hüseyin Sultan of the Kadiriye tarikat. According to OM I, p. 86, his death took place in 1170 AH (1756-57 CE). His name appears in the work as Selim-i Divane. The manuscript is undated, but probably copied in the 17th century.

1r contains considerable graffiti in Ottoman Turkish.

There is a small additional sheet in between ff 42 and 43 with several lines of text in Arabic.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003463541

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003463541

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 107 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

17th century-18th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Foliation : European for entire codex, each text is foliated in Ottoman style as a separate text

Dimensions : 208 mm x 150 mm

Ruling : Text boxes in red ink 2v-4r (165 mm x 93 mm); text block is the same size in text 1; text block for text 2 is 148 mm x 88m

Script : Nesih

Ink : Black ink with red catchwords and overlining

Binding : British Museum binding

Custodial History:

1r contains two small ownership seals bearing the name Salam Ali Ibrahim or the text Salam alá Ibrahim and the date 1211 AH (1796 CE).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Abd el-Ghani Shehab on 7 May 1921.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

Text 1 can also be found in Or 7578, Or 12171, Or 12758, and Or 13413 text 3.

Or. 9866, text 9 is the same text as text 2.

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 12171
Or 12758
Or 13413
Or 7578
Or 9866