[Melheme] - [ملحمه].

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 13366
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1079
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 136 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 136 ff. Dimensions : 200 mm x 150 mm. Ruling : The first 29 folios have margins ruled around the text. Script : Nesih with elements of rık'a.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the Melheme be-nazm-i Cevri Çelebi be-tarz-ı cedid, a recension by İbrahim Cevri Çelebi of Yazıcı Salaheddin's Şemsiye, a mesnevi treatise, translated from the Persian original on the art of prognostication from meteorological phenomena. Katip Çelebi gives the name of the present work as Melheme. This manuscript was copied by Ebu Bekir and dated Rebiülahir 1079 AH (September-October 1668 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Ad Orientem Ltd. in June 1972.

Related Material

Another copy of Cevri's Melheme can be found at Or 1170. Copies of both the Şemsiye and Yazıcı Salaheddin's Melheme can be found at Or 11928. For more information about Cevri, see Von Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, pp. 417-22; and Gibb, Ottoman Poetry, pp. 297-301. For more information on the Şemsiye and its author, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 193-94; and Von Hammer, Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst I, pp. 73-89.

Subjects

Meteorology