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Add MS 5983
- Record Id:
- 032-003711494
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003711494
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109615690.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5983
- Title:
- [Ottoman Turkish Mecmua]
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the following five texts :
(I) ff 8v-14v : Kitabü'r-remel fi Şeyh ez-Zenati Rahmet Allah aleyhi, a book of remel authored by Abdullah İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Osman Zenati el-Magribi ;
(II) ff 16v-47v : Haza Kitab-i Tali'-i Mevlut, a treatise on horoscopes. Hayreddin the astrologer says that he translated this book of horoscopes into Ottoman Turkish, but gives no information about the original work or its author. It is divided into bablar, and follows the order of the signs of the Zodiac from Aries to Pisces ;
(III) ff 47v-63v : Kitab-i Devname, another treatise on horoscopes. The contents are arranged, as in the preceding text, under the signs of the Zodiac. They were revealed to the Prophet Soloman by twelve Dev presiding over those signs, and over the fate of children born under them;
(IV) ff 69v-125v : Haza Kitab-i Remel-i Daniyal, a book of remel in nine fusul ;
(V) ff 144v-182v : Kitabü'r-remel-i muaceza ed-Daniyal aleyhi es-salam, another book of remel, this time translated from Persian by the astrologer Hayreddin el-Kunevi. The preface breaks off in the statement of the subject of the third fasl, and it is not quite certain that the sequel, partly consisting of tables, belongs to Hayreddin's work. The rest of the volume is taken up with miscellaneous notes and cabalistic diagrams.
The manuscript was completed in 1193 AH (1779 CE) according to a note on f 63v.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003711494
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003711494
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 texts, 186 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1779
- End Date:
- 1779
- Date Range:
- 1193
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper
Foliation : European, 186 ff
Dimensions : 165 mm x 108 mm
Script : Nesih
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from the collection of Hilgrove Turner.
- Information About Copies:
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For other copies of text 1, see Mehren, Cophenhagen Catalogue, Turk. No. 23; Uri, Karsh. No. 112; Casiri I, no. 919; and Haj. Khal. V, p. 88.
For other copies of text 2, including one dated 1023 AH (1614 CE), see Fleischer, Dresden Catalogue, No. 60; as well as Vienna Catalogue II, p. 498.
For other copies of text 3, see Fleischer, Leipzig Catalogue, p. 422a; and Aumer, no. 257, f. 48.
- Finding Aids:
- See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 132-33.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Divination--Early works to 1800
Islamic astrology - Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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Other versions of the Kitab-i Remel can be found at Harley MS 262, Harley MS 5522, and Add MS 9702.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 9702
Harley MS 262
Harley MS 5522
Or 7284