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1. [Gulistān]
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- Manuscript. Persian; first 67 leaves have Turkish translation and there is a brief poem in Ottoman Turkish at end. Title based on comparison with printed editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; manuscript is incomplete lacking an unknown number of leaves at the beginning; leaves 1a-67b have interlinear Turkish translation and extensive marginal notes; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area Fol. 1a-134a, 2 leaves. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript. Contemporary brown leather binding with embossed center medallions.
2. شرح الشمائل.
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- Abstract: A commentary in verse on al-Shamāʾil al-Nabawīyah by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892). The title on fol. 1a and the labels on the inside of upper and lower covers attribute the work to "Aşik Paşa" -- Alaeddin Ali Aşik Paşa (1272-1333)?. However, available reference sources do not mention this work in relation to Alaeddin Ali (e.g. see EI, EB, Ṭāhir etc.) and the label on the inside of lower cover of the ms. also states that the work was composed in 1157 (1744-45), the date being acquired from the chronogram at the end of text (see explicit).Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers and the envelope flap made with a gold roll inside two gold fillets. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in light brown paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Copied by "zade-yi Köprülüzade" (the son of Köprülüzade?) Seyit Mehmet Nafi el-müderris, and completed on the 2nd of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1225 (1810) -- colophon (fol. 91b)."17 lines per page. Written in a small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black inkwith columns and separate couplets also divided with lines in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Text frames on fol. 2b-3a are double with additional lines in red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Ms. has marginal annotationsmostly excerpts from Qārī al-Harawī's commentary on ShamāʾilJamʻ al-wasāʾil fī sharḥ al-Shamāʾil. These are in the same hand as the main textwritten in a very small nastaʻlīq in black and red ink to form different shapes including crescent moonminaretswordscups and bowlsfruittreespalm-trees etc."'Incipit: باسم مولاى لا له ثان وله الامر لا له ثان مبدع الخلق والنهى والشمائل منشئ الارض والسماء'Explicit: اصخاب ايله آله ده كه آنلر اول شمس هدانك انجمانى بو حسن ختامه اولدى تاريخ نشر اولدى شمايله معانى
3. Collection of petitions and imperial edicts pertaining to Crete.
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- Abstract: Contains copies of imperial edicts sent to Crete and petitions presented by Cretans reflecting their social and economic concerns. Ms. likely belonged to an Ottoman bureaucrat in Crete.Binding note: Quarter leather with boards.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Dated 1143 AH (1730 or 31) (fol. 10b).
4. Deed of endowment, 1749 January 5, of eş-Şeyh Mehmet Rıza Efendi bin eş-Şeyh İbrahim Efendi.
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- Abstract: Vaqıf document. Signatures and stamps of three judges on fol. 1a; witnesses listed on fol. 10b.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Ms. codex.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Some staining and smudging. In good condition.Decoration: On fol. 1b, illuminated unvan in gold and color. Text framed in double gold lines; phrase stops in the shape of gold disks with red and blue dots.Origin: 15 Muḥarram 1162 H 5 January 1749 (fol. 9b).
5. Qurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī
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- Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red ink; verses are separated by gold discs. Individual sūrahs have titles in red and gold; extensive commentary in Persian in the margins throughout; black ink; Persian translation in red ink; catchwords. The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress, 17 Naskh (Qurʼānic text); nastaʻliq (Persian translation); 12 lines in written area 21 x 11.5 cm. Fol. 1b-325a. Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M133. Binding lacking; marbled endpapers in pastel colors and tan. Explicit/Colophon: Kemal Paşa merhumun ve çocuğum vakf olunmuṣtur, sene 1304, Recep. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
6. رونق البستان.
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- Binding note: Half-leather binding with flap; pasted boards with marbled paper.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-29b: Revnak ül-bustan. A work on gardening by Inayet Efendi, also known as Felâhatname.Contents: 2. fol. 33b-36a: Magical formulas.Contents: 3. fol. 38a-41b: Medicinal recipes.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 2b.Physical description: 20-23 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white paper. Headings and overlinings in red; text on fol. 2b-29b bordered by red frame. Fol. 1b-2a contain a simple gold illumination and are framed in gold. Foliation written by a later hand is incorrect. Fol. 30a-33a, 36b-37b, 42 blank.Origin: Text 1 copied in Athens in 1009 A.H. (1600 or 1601) (fol. 29b); author is from Edirne (fol. 1a).
7. اخلاق علائي
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- Abstract: "Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb) composed in 1565 (fol. 6b-261b)Abstract: followed by two short treatises also on ethicsAbstract: virtue and moral qualities (fol. 263b-280b and 280b-296b)Abstract: the first of which is in Arabic and consists of a list of different concepts conditioning those qualities and the explanations thereofAbstract: starting with al-tawakkulAbstract: al-jahlAbstract: khawf al-dhamm wa-ḥubb al-madaḥ etc.Abstract: and the second is in Arabic and Ottoman and is dedicated to Sultan Abdülhamid I (ruled 1774-1789)."Binding note: Brown leather with a gold tooled mandorla with pendants in the center and 4 gold tooled corner pieces in foliage pattern on upper and lower covers. Envelope flap with same gold tooled design, consisting of a small mandorla, 2 corner pieces, and gold guilloche and fillets around the edges. Spine, fore-edge flap and borders of upper and lower covers repaired in different brown leather. Pastedowns and envelope flap lining in yellow paper sprinkled in silver. Fore-edge lining in olive fabric.Ms. composite codex.Title from the lower edge of text block.Main text was copied by Derviş Mehmet Ahlakî on the 15th of Shaʻbān 997 (1589), this being the 30th copy which he did -- colophon (fol. 261b). Given the dedication to Sultan Abdülhamid I, the second and third texts, which are written continuously, are from the 18th century and were subsequently bound with the first.Main text: 19 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined with three lines in black ink, with headings and verses in separately outlined sections. Fol. 6b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) made in gold leaf with dark and light blue, orange and purple watercolors. Fol. 6b, 12a, 21a, and then every 10th leaf has a circular medallion on the margin, made with gold leaf with foliage pattern in black ink in the center with red circle around it and blue ink around the edges. Fol. 112b-116a have margins sprinkled in gold. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink starts with 1 on fol. 7. Texts 2 and 3: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Very thin light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres.Ms. additions: Several short inscriptions on fol. 1b; table of contents on fol. 2b-3a; two ownership statements on fol. 6a, one in the name of Mehmet Celaleddin, accompanied by a stamp dated 189 (1775-76), and the other in the name of Ömer Hüsameddin, dated 26 M 1227 (10 February 1812).Incipit text 1: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظامExplicit text 1: وعليه التكلان انه مفضل منعم حنان منان تمت الرساله المجموعه من مكارم الاخلاق بعون الله الملك الخلاقIncipit text 2: من الكلمات الصحيحة الدين النصيحة الحمد لله ... وبعد فان الدنيا الفانية سريعة الزوالExplicit text 2: مراد ما نصيحت بود وكفتيم حوالت با خدا كرديم ورفتيمIncipit text 3: الحمد لله ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل متطبقان وفى المآل متوافقانExplicit text 3: واستعمال اصناف حيل ومكايده بهر حال قيام عقلا وشرعا خير المرامدر
8. Şerh-i Hafız. Vol. 2
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- Abstract: Second part of a Turkish commentary on the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ, beginning with the letter ʻayn to the end of the Dīvān.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge. Title given by a later hand on fol. 1b erroneously reads "Hafız Divani tercümesi."Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh-nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Damp staining around margins. In good condition.Origin: Original text completed the evening of 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 966 H 6 September 1559; this copy completed at the end of Jumādá II 1020 H September 1611 by Hacı Abdürrahim Semerkandî (fol. 233b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى عىن اعىان الدىن لاجراء عىن العلم و ىنبوع الىقىن
9. لغت حليمي چلبي : بحر الغرايب.
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- Abstract: A Persian-Turkish literary dictionary.Binding note: Olive paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.'19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and underlined words. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some water damage around the edges of text block, and some insect damage around the spine. Ms. additions: a table of numbers with their names in Persian with Turkish equivalents on fol. 1a; a list of additional words beginning with \'ya\' after the end of text on fol. 84a; an inscription on inside of lower cover stating that the copy is lacking two fol. Inscription on the lower edge of text block: "Lügat-i Halimî Çelebi132".'Incipit: حمد بليغ وثناى بى دريغ ... وبعد چنين ميكويد ضعيف وشكته بال ونحيف بر كشته حالExplicit: اكرچه خانهء عمرم بهيده كرد بجور اساس عمر دى اندرامان حق بادا
10. تاريخ وقعهء جزيرهء ساقز سنه 1237
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- Abstract: "Mehmet Emin Vahit Paşa's account of the 1822 Greek uprising on the island of Chios."Binding note: Brown leather with gold tooled panel design made with a gold guilloche and fillets around the borders of covers, and two gold fillets to form an inner rectangle with small rosetta stamps inside each of its corners. Rebacked with spine in different leather. Bottom edge of lower cover also rapaired in same leather as on spine. Marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.In Ottoman Turkish.Title from fol. 1b.Copy completed on the 29th of Ramaḍān 1243 (1828) -- colophon (fol. 34a).21 lines per page. Written in a small nastaʻlīq in black ink with some use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a double-line frame in red ink, except on fol. 1b-2a which have a wide gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece in gold ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Cream wove paper with watermarks.Incipit: سبحان من قال فى كتابه الكريم وما النصر الا من عند الله العزيز الحكيم معلوم اولو الهى در كه دودهء شوكت اندودهء خلافت عظمالرىExplicit: برا وبحرا بو غزادن بالاتر نيجه نيجه فتحات جليله يه مطهريت دائما بنده كان دولت عليه لرين ولشاد وسرور واعدالرين برباد ومقهور ايليه
11. وقعة كربلاء
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- Abstract: A history of the battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn. The text ends on fol. 215b, and is followed (on ff. 216a-218b) by an incomplete text entitled "Mersiye", consisting of a mersiye (a dirge in memory of Haṣan and Ḥusayn), and a commentary.Binding note: "Green leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers and the envelope flap consisting of multiple gold rolls and filletsBinding note: with small rosetta stamps forming corner pieces. Gold stamped 'branch with flowers' motif on upper and lower covers. Gold tooled panel design on fore edge flapBinding note: made with fillets and rosetta stamps. Endleaves and lining to envelope flap in yellow embossed glazed paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in green leather."Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.18 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a frame outlined with four lines, in yellow, green, red and blue, with verses separated from the main text in sections ruled in red ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, orange and black watercolors, and the text frame is in gold leaf with one red and one blue line around it. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink starts on fol. 2. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines.Incipit: رب شرح لي صدري ويسر لي امري واحل عقدة من لساني ويفقهو اقواليExplicit (fol. 215b): اجرلر بو له لر وجمله ثوابلر ندن بو مصيبت نامه مؤلفنه تصدق قلوب بو ثوابي دخي موجب مزيد حسنات بله لر
12. Lügat ve kavaid-i Baleybelen
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- Abstract: "A dictionary and grammar of BaleybelenAbstract: the secret artifical language created by Muhyî-yi GülşenîAbstract: composed in Cairo in the second half of the 16th century (after Selim II's succession to the throne). The second of the two preliminary sections of the work is dated and was completed in 988 (1580 or 81)."Binding note: Brown leather with gold roll and two fillets around borders of covers. Pastedowns in yellow, olive and red marbled paper. Binding and paper restored by Jeffrey M. Rigby, 1985 (label inserted between fol. 164 and the lower cover).Ms. codex.Title from fol. 162a.17 lines per page. Written in a very small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, green and gold ink for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 21b and 41b have illuminated headpieces with mandorla style motifs in gold leaf in the center, surrounded by foliage pattern in gold ink on blue watercolor background. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thin, glazed paper with visible laid lines, and occasionally visible uneven chain lines. Most of it is light cream, with some sheets stained yellow, and fol. 2a and 163b are sprinkled in silver. Lower half of fol. 9 missing. Some water and wear damage, and repairs throughout, with some loss of text, chiefly towards the end of the ms.Ms. additions: three inscriptions on fol. 1a-1b, all in different hands, two in black ink and one in purple crayon, the latter signed Mehmet Veled, and all three providing information on the contents of the ms.Incipit: مقدمة الكتاب درت اصل وبر تتمه وضبط اوزره ضبط اولندى اصل اول لطفى در انسان تدنى بالطبع اولوبExplicit: خاتمه فى الرسالة الجامعة للتفرقة والتفريد ... والحرف والكيميا والسيميا والطب والطلسمات والله اعلم تم
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