Details

Subject(s)

• Astrology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Divination—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Miscellanea—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medicine, Arab—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Trivia and miscellanea [Browse]

Contains

• Mirî, Hoca Bu Zerece. Zafer-name. [Browse]
• مىرى، خواجه بو زرجه. ظفرنامه. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of short texts on various types of divination, as well as a couple of texts on religious matters and some prescriptions. Descriptive titles are listed in a table of contents on fol. 1b; only text 16 is accompanied by an actual title and author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. With charts. Foliated in Arabic script. Some staining; edges ragged and a few leaves torn.
• Origin: 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1181 H [3 May 1768], Halil bin Hasan Hoca (fol. 122a).

Binding note

Originally full brown leather with gold-stamped mandorla; leather is mostly worn away and underlying paper has been laquered.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-9a: Tefeʾül-i sebʾa-i seyyare. The seven planets.
• 2. fol. 9b-18a: Tefeʾül-i esma ül-enbiya. The names of the prophets.
• 3. fol. 18a-27a: Tefeʾül-i tuyur. Birds; with charts.
• 4. fol. 27a-70b: Tefeʾül-i kurʾa-yi huruf. Letters of the alphabet.
• 5. fol. 70b-73b: Tefeʾül-i kaʾide-yi zamime ve matruh. Addition and subtraction.
• 6. fol. 73b-76a: Tefeʾül-i remil. Geomancy.
• 7. fol. 76a-77a: Tefeʾül-i reml-i Ali. Geomancy.
• 8. fol. 77a-78a: Duʾa-yi tefeʾül-i istihare. The istikhārah prayer.
• 9. fol. 78a-91a: Tali-i müzekker. Astrology for men.
• 10. fol. 91a-102b: Tali-i müennes. Astrology for women.
• 11. fol. 102b-111a: Tali-i div-name-yi müzekker ve müennes. Astrology.
• 12. fol. 111a-112a: Muʾcize-yi Ebu Ducane. A miracle which occured during the Battle of Uḥud.
• 13. fol. 112a: Baş-i aǧırınce ve nüsha. Prescriptions.
• 14. fol. 112b-113a: Levh ul-hayat ve memat. Prescriptions, with chart.
• 15. fol. 113b-118a: Maʾacin. Prescriptions.
• 16. fol. 118b-122a: Zafer-name / teʾlif-i Hoca Bu Zerece Mirî. Questions put to the author concerning religious matters.
• 17. fol. 122b-127a: [Notes, extracts, and magical drawings]. By a different hand.

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Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2012/11/15 (2013-39)

OCLC

818646124

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