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Or 11063
- Record Id:
- 032-003707133
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003707133
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108697348.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11063
- Title:
- [A Collection of Ottoman Turkish Medical Treatises and one Religious Tract]
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the following 15 Ottoman Turkish medical texts :
(I) ff 2r-28v : Kitab uş-şifa, A compilation of various works on medicine based on Arabic originals made by Ak Şemseddin, dated 1099 AH (1687-88 CE) ;
(II) ff 29r-30r : Medical recipes ;
(III) ff 30v-39v : A risale by Reis ül-hükema Salih Efendi on medical recipes that is incomplete ;
(IV) ff 40r-v : Medical recipes ;
(V) ff 40v-62r : Another risale in 15 bab entitled Tevalüd (ü) tenasül written for Mehmet II by Mehmet Çelebi, probably translated from the Persian. The text was copied in 1094 AH (1682-83 CE) ;
(VI) ff 62v-64r : Isolated pages from another medical work bound up with the others ;
(VII) ff 64v-83v : Risale-yi mualece-yi ebdan, medical remedies by Kaysunizade in mesnevi form. This text is incomplete ;
(VIII) ff 84v-95v : Recipes by Ak Şemseddin ;
(IX) ff 96v-145r : Lugat-i müşkilat-i ecza, written in 1035 AH (1625-26 CE) by Karamanlı Derviş Siyahi ;
(X) ff 145v-146r : Recipes ;
(XI) ff 146r-161r : An untitled medical risale by Mehmet Çelebi(?). The dates of transcription of texts VIII and IX are given in the form of a riddle (muamma) in this text as 24 Şeval 1094 AH (16 October 1683 CE) ;
(XII) f 161v : A medical recipe ;
(XIII) ff 162r-163v : Some quotations from the works of Kaysunizade ;
(XIV) ff 163v-164r : More recipes ;
(XV) ff 164v-170r : A tract on the religious associations of the weekdays by Şeyh Abdülgani dated 1117 AH (1705-06 CE).
The texts within the manuscript were written by a number of contemporaneaous hands.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003707133", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 11063: [A Collection of Ottoman Turkish Medical Treatises and one Religious Tract]" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003707133
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003707133
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 15 texts, 172 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1660
- End Date:
- 1740
- Date Range:
- Late 17th century-Early 18th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper
Foliation : European, 172 ff
Dimensions : 180 mm x 110 mm
Ruling : Some texts include red-ruled margins; some texts in two-columns
Script : Nesih and nestalik
Ink : Black ink with red for catchwords and titles in some texts
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mehmet II, of Turkey
- Subjects:
- Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Persian - Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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For other recipes by Kaysunizade (text XIII) see Or 8036 text XXX, Or 8728 texts I and II, Or 10956, and Add MS 5991 texts III and IV.
For more information about Kaysunizade, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 125; and OM III, p. 239.
For more information on Karamanlı Derviş Siyahi see OM III, p. 218.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 5991
Or 10956
Or 8036
Or 8728