Kitab-i Cevahirü'l-Kelimat - كتاب جواهر الكلمات

This volume contains a versified Ottoman Turkish-Arabic vocabulary by Şemsi which is an imitation of those by Ferişteoğlu and Şahidi. Each section (kıt'a) is in a different metre of which the pattern is given at the end. There are two other mesneviler in this manuscript:. ff 46v-50r : An anonymous poem on the rules relating to prayer and ablutions by a certain Garibi (f 50r), who put into verse a risale translated from the Arabic into Ottoman Turkish on the same subject made by Müfti Şemseddin Menla Fenari for his grandson;. ff 50v-74v : A versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary based on Şahidi entitled Kān-i maᶜānī written by el-Seyit Hasan, the son of Haccı Efendi Aksarayi, with the mahlas of Rızai (ff 52r, 74v). İbrahim (1640-48 AH) is mentioned as the reigning Sultan (f 51r) and the date of composition of the text is given as 1051 AH (1641-42 CE) (74v). As in the Cevahirü'l-Kelimat, each section is in a different metre of which the pattern is given at the end. All three works were copied in the same hand in 1130 AH (1717-18 CE).

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Bequeathed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Another copy of text 1 can be found at Sloane MS 3113. A further copy of the second text can be found at Or 1166 text 4. For more information on the author of the Kitab-i Cevahirü'l-Kelimat, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 137. For more information on the author of the second text see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 11, where the text is called Tuhfetü'l-Muhammediye and the author's name is given as Azizi. For more information on Şemseddin Menla el-Fenari, see OM I, p. 390.