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Sloane MS 3113
- Record Id:
- 040-002115497
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x00032b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3113
- Title:
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Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object was to include all Arabic words used in elegant Ottoman Turkish composition. He explained them in a plain style, easy of comprehension for children, and put them into pleasing metres.
The work consists of sixty-two kıt'alar, in which words of similar form or sound are grouped together. In the last line of each kıt'a its metre is scanned with the technical names of the feet. At the end of the first kıt'a, which concludes the prologue, the author designates himself by his mahlas, Şemsi.
The manuscript was copied by Mehmet İbn-i Şeyhi Ahmet İbn-i el-Hacc Mehmet Anabolu eş-Şehir bi-tavil in the month of Muharrem 1105 AH (September 1693 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002115497 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 3113 : Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[3120]/040-002115497
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 text, 97 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1693
- End Date:
- 1693
- Date Range:
- 1105
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper
Foliation : European, 97 ff
Dimensions : 140 mm x 102 mm
Script : Nesih and nastaliq, fully vocalized
- Custodial History:
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Sir Hans Sloane amassed his wealth through exploitation of the labour of enslaved people. Part of this wealth was stored through the medium of valuable manuscripts such as the current volume.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Acquired from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane.
- Information About Copies:
- Other copies of this work are mentioned in the Vienna Catalogue I, p. 121; the Leiden Catalogue V, p. 320; and Aumer, Türkische Handscriften, No. 219.
- Finding Aids:
- See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 136-37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Vocabularies
- Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
- Another copy of this text can be found at Or 7299 text 1.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Or 7299