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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

no. 1381

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

Subjects

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