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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• محمد، النبي، d. 632 [Browse]
• Dream interpretation—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ahmet Bican, active 15th century. Acaib ül-mahlukat. [Browse]
• احمد بىجان، active 15th century. عجايب المخلوقات. [Browse]
• Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534. Risālah. [Browse]
• كمال پاشازاده 1468 or 1469-1534. رسالة. [Browse]
• Yahya Efendi, 1553?-1644. Divan-i Yahya. Selections. [Browse]
• ىحىى افندى، 1553?-1644. دىوان ىحىى. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of Turkish and Arabic texts on a variety of subjects; the margins are filled with extracts on Islamic law and faith as well as poetry, anecdotes, and hadith.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Collective title from text 2, fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 2 framed in red. Extensive marginalia. Extensive damp-staining; first leaf partially torn away. A few paper repairs, mild insect damage, edges somewhat ragged. In fair condition.
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعد محب العلما و خادم الفقراء يازجى اوغلىنك رضيه سبب تحرير كتابى اولدر كه
• Incipit (text 3): رجل اصبح جنبا في شهر رمضان فصومه تام الا على قول بعض اصحاب الحديث

Binding note

Three-quarter leather with paper covers.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Mesail].
• 2. fol. 1b-44a: Hâzâ Kitab-ı Acaib ül-mahlukat / Ahmet Bican. A short treatise in cosmology, essentially a very abridged version of Qazwīnī's ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt. In Turkish.
• 3. fol. 44b: Risale-yi Kemalpașazade. Commentary on a legal matter from Sarakhsī's Mabsūṭ, concerning fasting while in a state of ritual impurity; in Arabic.
• 4. fol. 45a-47a: Yahya Efendi'nin nazım eyledigi ahadis-i ṣerifedir ki Türkiye tercüme etmişlerdir. Translations of hadith into metrical Turkish.
• 5. fol. 47b-50b: [Stories concerning pre-Islamic prophets, the Prophet Muḥammad and ʻAlī]. This appears to be an extract; the text cites Fuzulî's Hadikat üs-süada. In Turkish; incomplete at end.
• 6. fol. 71a-77a: [Treatise on dream interpretation]. The text cites Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn. In Turkish; incomplete at the beginning.
• 7. fol. 77b-78a: [Mesail].
• 8. fol. 78b-107b: Kitab-ı Terşihat alâ'l-ihtisar. A Sufi text which may be an abridgement of Nasuh Çelebi's Kitab-ı Terşihat (on which see VOHD, XIII, 2, no. 73). In the title and the text, "terşih" is erroneously spelled "t-r-sh-y-kh". In Turkish.

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References

• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 106-107.
• VOHD, XIII, 5, no. 159

Other title(s)

• [Stories concerning pre-Islamic prophets, the Prophet Muḥammad and ʻAlī].
• [Treatise on dream interpretation].
• Kitab-ı Terşihat alâ'l-ihtisar.
• کتاب ترشىحات على الاختصار.

OCLC

829705700

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