[Ottoman Turkish Mecmua]

This volume contains the following five texts :. (I) ff 8v-14v : Kitabü'r-remel fi Şeyh ez-Zenati Rahmet Allah aleyhi, a book of remel authored by Abdullah İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Osman Zenati el-Magribi;. (II) ff 16v-47v : Haza Kitab-i Tali'-i Mevlut, a treatise on horoscopes. Hayreddin the astrologer says that he translated this book of horoscopes into Ottoman Turkish, but gives no information about the original work or its author. It is divided into bablar, and follows the order of the signs of the Zodiac from Aries to Pisces;. (III) ff 47v-63v : Kitab-i Devname, another treatise on horoscopes. The contents are arranged, as in the preceding text, under the signs of the Zodiac. They were revealed to the Prophet Soloman by twelve Dev presiding over those signs, and over the fate of children born under them;. (IV) ff 69v-125v : Haza Kitab-i Remel-i Daniyal, a book of remel in nine fusul;. (V) ff 144v-182v : Kitabü'r-remel-i muaceza ed-Daniyal aleyhi es-salam, another book of remel, this time translated from Persian by the astrologer Hayreddin el-Kunevi. The preface breaks off in the statement of the subject of the third fasl, and it is not quite certain that the sequel, partly consisting of tables, belongs to Hayreddin's work. The rest of the volume is taken up with miscellaneous notes and cabalistic diagrams. The manuscript was completed in 1193 AH (1779 CE) according to a note on f 63v.

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Acquired from the collection of Hilgrove Turner.

See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 132-33.

Other versions of the Kitab-i Remel can be found at Harley MS 262, Harley MS 5522, and Add MS 9702.