Dd. 10.8 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: A calendar of the Syrian months from March to February with their correspondences with Muhammadan months, accompanied by some explanatory notes in Turkish. A few cabalistic squares and magical formula.
Title: Calendar fragment of the Syrian months from March to February
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish and Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 9 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 24.2 × 15.9 cm.
Condition
Layout
9 lines to the page
Hand(s)
naskh
Additions:
Binding
History
Origin: The dates 1011, 1012, 1060, 1082, 1091 occur on folio 2b. AH
Provenance and Acquisition
Donated as part of the Royal library of George I (1660-1727) in 1715.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900, abbreviated by the Yunus Emre Institute project team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Yunus Emre Institute
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