Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Charms—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Incantations, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Incantations, Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Advisory opinions (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Fatwas—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A personal notebook, a collection of invocations and spells, interspersed with prayers and fetvas from a number of different sources, including Ebuusuud Efendi (1492 or 3-1574 or 5). Most of it is in Ottoman, but some of the invocations and prayers are in Arabic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by the cataloger.
• Ca. 13 lines per page. Written in a casual hand in medium to small taʻlīq in black ink. Some of the texts are vowelled. Thick cream paper with visible laid and uneven chain lines.
• Incipit: ساعت الايام صباح قوشلق زوال اويله بين الصلوتين اكندى اقشام
• Explicit: صويه قويوب ايچه فى الحال ... تجربه اولنمشدر

Binding note

Brown paper over pasteboard on covers. Evidence of leather around cover edges. Spine pasted with green tape.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish, with sections in Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986 ; 2007.

OCLC

183403865

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