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Or 1170
- Record Id:
- 032-003949886
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003949886
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100126248126.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1170
- Title:
- Kitab-i Melheme - كتاب ملحمه
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains a versified treatise on prognostics to be derived from eclipses, halos, shooting starts, rainbows, hail, peculiar appearances of the sky, and other meteorological phenomena, according to their occurrence in the months of the Hijri year, from Teşrin-i evel to Eylül. The author, whose name does not appears in the work, says in the prologue that the original work had been previous translated from Persian into Ottoman Turkish verse by a poet known as Salahuddin.
The verses being defective, and the language obscure, the writer, although protesting that the task was beneath him, had been prevailed upon by a friend to re-write the work in a correct and elegant style. The date of composition, 1045 AH (1635-36 CE), is expressed at the end of the prologue in the form of a chronogram.
This manuscript is imperfect at the end and breaks off before the conclusion of the chapter relating to Eylül in the section headed 'Nakl-i ahkam-i raad mi-kerdan'.
This is evidently the same work referenced by Haj. Khal. as Melheme (ملهمه). He says that it was first put into verse by Salahuddin, and afterwards altered and improved by a poet of his time with the mahlas Cevri, who completed it in 1015 AH (1606-07 CE). The original poem of Salahuddin, entitled Şemsiye, was composed in 811 AH (1408-09 CE). According to Ali, Salahuddin was the father of Şeyh Yazıcıoğlu Mehmet and of Ahmet Bican.
Cevri, whose given name was İbrahim Çelebi, was a Mevlevi and one of the most eminent poets of the reign of Murat IV. He died in 1065 AH (1654-55 CE).
This manuscript is undated but was likely copied in the 17th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003949886
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003949886
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 100 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Scripts:
- Arabic (nastaliq Variant)
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material : Paper
Folation : European, 100 ff
Dimensions : 197 mm x 108 mm
Ruling : Ruled margins; 60 mm long; 19 lines
Script : Nestalik
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the British Museum from the collection of Alexandre Jaba.
- Information About Copies:
- Copies of this work are noticed in Fleischer, Leipzig Catalogue, No. 262; Dresden Catalogue, No. 77; and Pertsch, Gotha Catalogue, Nos. 203-205.
- Finding Aids:
- See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 193-94
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Meteorology
- Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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Another copy of Cevri's Melheme can be found at Or 13366.
Copies of both the Şemsiye and Yazıcı Salaheddin's Melheme can be found at Or 11928.
For more information about Cevri, see Von Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, pp. 417-22; and Gibb, Ottoman Poetry, pp. 297-301. Cevri's Divan can be found at Paris Catalogue, p. 328, No. 260; and Vienna Catalogue I, p. 654. For an example of his calligraphy, see Or 9476.
For more information on the Şemsiye and its author, see Von Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst I, pp. 73-89; and Ali, Kunhu'l-Ahbar V, p. 237.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Or 11928
Or 13366