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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 8036
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16th century-17th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 32 texts 143 ff Materıals : Paper. Foliation : European, 137 ff. Dimensions : 198 mm x 130 mm. Script : Primarily nestalik, some nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains extracts and fragments of various works as follows:. (I) (ff 1r-2r) : Various notes;. (II) (f 3r) : A poem on the death of Prince Mustafa, son of Süleyman I;. (III) (f 4r) : Part of a terciibent of Hatifi and fragments of a work of inşa;. (IV) (ff 4v-5v) : Poems by Baki;. (V) (ff 6r-8r) : Folios from a work of inşa;. (VI) (f 8v) : A poem by Fevri;. (VII) (ff 9r-14v) : Various notes, letters, and fetava;. (VIII) (f 15r) : A türkü;. (IX) (f 15v) : Two medical prescriptions;. (X) (ff 16r-v) : Letters;. (XI) (ff 17r-24v) : Poems by Aşıki Baba, Nabi, Figani and others;. (XII) (ff 24r-v) : A few fetava by Ebüsuud Efendi;. (XIII) (ff 26r-v) : Portions of a tabirname;. (XIV) (ff 26v-83r) : Portions of the Divan of Yahya (Dukaginzade/Dukagjini?);. (XV) (91v-95r) : Poems by Necati, Füzuli, Fevri, Mir Alişir, Azeri, Alevi, Rızai, Baki, and others, as well as a genealogical table from Adam to Mehmet IV;. (XVI) (ff 95v-97r) : Portions of a falname;. (XVII) (f 98v) : Notes on the İlm-i Remel;. (XVIII) (ff 98v-104v) : A versified translation of the Forty Traditions (الاربعون حديث) of ᶜAzmī;. (XIX) (ff 105r-v) : Notes, talismans, and divination from the Qur'an, followed by the names of the Companions of the Cave;. (XX) (ff 109r-110v) : Another verse translation of the Forty Traditions (الاربعون حديث) entitled Sübhatu'l-uşşak, followed by various notes and a table of the descent of the Twelve Imams;. (XXI) (ff 111r-v) : A table entitled Asmā al-mulūk ᶜinda'l-wilādah and a glossary called Lugat-i müşterek ;. (XXII) (f 112r) : Various notes on the aforementioned glossary;. (XXIII) (ff 112v-123r) : A Persian tract on riddles, with an Ottoman Turkish tract on medical treatment found in the margins;. (XXIV) (f 123v) : A document and a petition;. (XXV) (f 124r) : A list of foods and various objects of clothing;. (XXVI) (ff 124v-125r) : Advice given by Ebüsuud Efendi to his kâtipler;. (XXVII) (ff 125v-130v) : Kiyafetname, a mesnevi on physiognomy by Hamdi and a hadis on the 23 things that bring about impoverishment;. (XXVIII) (f 131r) : Mev'iza-i manzum- Azmi Efendi;. (XXIX) (ff 121v-132r) : Various notes;. (XXX) (ff 132v-137v) : Risale-i Nidai, or the Risale-i Kaysunizade, a medical treatise versified for Selim II by Derviş Nidai in 978 AH (1570-71 CE);. (XXXI) (ff 137v-141r) : Kiyafetname, a short tract on physiognomy; and. (XXXII) (ff 141v-143r) : Various notes. The manuscript was copied in various hands, likely in the 16th or 17th centuries CE.

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A complete translation of the Kitab-i Hadis-i Erbain can be found at Or 8038 text I and Or 14243. More copies of the Risale-i Kaysunizade (text XXX) can be found at Or 8728 texts I and II, Or 10956, Or 11063, and Add MS 5991 texts III and IV. For more information about Kaysunizade, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts at the British Museum, p. 125; and OM III, 239.