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Summary of Contents: 34 works by 11 authors on the subjects of Turkey, Materia medica, Medicine, Arabic alphabet, Islam, Nawrūz, Letter writing, Falnamas, Islamic astronomy, Veterinary medicine, Hadith, Turkish poetry, Physiognomy, Geography, Cosmology, Islamic cosmology, Alexander, Turkish prose literature, and Koran
1.
Author: Muhtasar Hoca Mukhtaṣar Khvājah مختصر خواجه
Title: Tavārīkh-i Āl-i ʻUs̲mān
Title: Tevarih-i Āl-i Osman
Title: تواریخ آل عثمان
Incipit: ابتدا ظهور دولت آل عثمان و مناقب تواریخ و قصص ایشان

A listing of the early Ottoman Sultans and their victories, preceded by six pages of introductory material and two faulty indexes

Language(s): Turkish

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2.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tavārīkh-i shāhān-i pīshīn va mulūk-i mutaqaddimīn alqāb-i salāṭīn
Title: Tevarih-i şahan-ı peşin ve mülūk-ı mütekaddimin elkab-ı selatin
Title: تواریخ شاهان پشین و ملوک متقدمین القاب سلاطین
Incipit: کتاب بدایة النهايه ده و جمله تعين اولمشدر كه يمن ديارنه و حضرت موت ولايتنه هركيم مالك اولور انلرك پادشاهلرینه
Colophon: تم الکتاب ...في 15 شهر رجب فی یوم الجمعه وقت الظهر سنه 1035

A listing of ancient kings and sultans

Language(s): Turkish

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Author: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274
Title: Bānnāmah-i pādshāhī
Title: بان نامۀ پادشاهی

A Turkish translation of a Persian work on materia medica

Incipit: وبعده...ناصر طوسی...بو کتاب تالیف ایتد و کنه و اسرار حکما کشف و اظهار ایتد
Colophon: تمت نسخۀ شریف شهر ذي القعده 25 سنه 1035
Language(s): Turkish

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4.
Author: Ecmel Selim Han Ajmāl Salīm Khān اجمال سلیم خان
Title: Risālah-’i ẓirr-i manẓum
Title: رسالۀ ظر منظوم

An Ottoman medical treatise in verse

Incipit: اي حكيم و عليم و حي و حليم حضرتكدر كريم و شلن عظيم
Colophon: تمت الرسالة الشريفة...الواقع في غره شهر ذي الحجه يكرمي ايكی سنه 1035
Language(s): Turkish

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5.
Author: ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī 1362 or 1363-1417 or 1418 عز الدين المقدسي
Title: Kitāb al-ḥarf
Title: كتاب الحرف

Quotations from various authors in alphabetical order

Incipit: روي عن الشيخ الامام العامل عز الدين المقدسي...قال هذه تسعة وعشرون حرفا من الحقايق
Language(s): Arabic

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6.
Author: Mehmet Reis Han Muḥammad Rayyis Khān محمد ریس خان، قید علي دريا
Title: Tuḥfat al-aswār wa-ṭarīq al-biḥār
Title: تحفة الاسوار وطریق البحار

A guide to the defences of Istanbul for sailors

Incipit: هذا رسالۀ تحفة الاسوار وطريق البحار...اما بعد ...حاجی محمد ریس قید علي دريا
Language(s): Turkish

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7.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tafsīr-i abjad ḥurūf-i ajrāʼī
Title: تفسیر ابجد حروف اجرایی

On the abjad letters and their uses in dating

Incipit: تفسیر ابجد منقول شیخ الکبار...قولهم ابجد معنآه ای آدم
Language(s): Turkish

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8.
Author: Eskenderi, Mahmut Efendi Iskandarī, Maḥmūd Afandī اسكندي، محمود افندي
Title: Nuqila ʻan al-shaykh Maḥmūd Afandī al-Iskandarī
Title: نقل عن الشيخ محمود افندي الاسكندي

On the times of events in Islamic history

Incipit: بعد هجرتک في الف وعشرين لا تبقى العلما ولا يوجد الا قليل
Language(s): Arabic

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9.
Author: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? ابو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازى
Title: ʿAn al-arwāḥ
Title: عن الارواح

On the soul

Incipit: باب مسئل عن ابي بكر الرازي ...عن الارواح
Language(s): Arabic

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10.
Author: Anonymous
Title: On the days of the week on which the festival of Nawruz falls with six tables and one chart
Incipit: نوروز مبارک هفته کونلرندن قنغي کونده واقع اولورسه حکما متقدمین قولنجه اعتبارلرین بیان ایدر
Colophon: تمت الرساله فی شهر صفر المظفر سنه 1037
Language(s): Turkish

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11.
Author: Ahizade Hüseyin Akhīzādah Ḥusayn اخي زاده حسين
Title: Şefaat name
Title: Shifāʻat nāmah
Title: شفاعت نامه
Incipit: شفاعت نامه بو اوسلوب اوزره يازولر

On the writing of petitions

Language(s): Turkish

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12.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Cetveli fal
Title: Jadval-i fāl
Title: جدول فال

Tables for fortune telling

Language(s): Turkish

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13.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sharḥ-i rūznāmah-’i asāmī
Title: شرح روزنامۀ اسامی

Seven tables of names, dates and fortune telling

Language(s): Turkish

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14.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tawārīkh fatḥ al-Sulṭān Salīm bi-Miṣr
Title: تواریخ فتح السلطان سلیم خان بمصر

Dates in tabula form of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517

Language(s): Turkish

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15.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ten folios of astronomical tables
Language(s): Turkish

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16.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Baytarname
Title: Bayṭārnāmah
Title: بيطرنامه
Incipit: هذا كتاب بيطرنامه...ائمةء دين وامراء اهل تمكين ووزراء صاحب رسم انين

A work on veterinary science. Incomplete

Language(s): Turkish

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17.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah-ʼi tajvīz-i Imām ‘Alī
Title: Risaleh-i tecviz-i İmam Ali
Title: رسالۀ تجویز امام علي
Incipit: آلایت کلا ان كتاب الفجار لفي سجين فصل بو فصل فاطمهة الزهرانك رضي الله عنها نكاحين وتجویزین بیان ایدر

A tafsir on a verse of the Surah al-Mutaffifin and traditions concerning Fatimah the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad

Language(s): Turkish

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18.
Author: ʻĀshiq ʿĀşıḳ عاشق
Title: ʿĀşıḳ divanı bu dur
Title: عاشق دیوانی بو در
Incipit: هر کیم اول عشقنه ویردي کوکل نه حقدن کلدیسه قلدي قیولث

A long Ottoman Turkish poem

Language(s): Turkish

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19.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tavārīkh-i shāhān-i pīshīn va awliyā-’i guzīn
Title: Tevarih-i şahan-ı peşin ve evliya-ı güzin
Title: تواریخ شاهان پشین و اولیاءكزين
Incipit: روي عن كعب الاخبارانه قال وجدت في كتب الانبياء

A listing of ancient kings and sultans

Language(s): Turkish

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20.
Author: Anonymous
Title: A diagram showing the compass points of various places in the Ottoman Empire
Language(s): Turkish

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21.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Asāmī-i muftīyān-i Al-i ‘Us̲mān
Title: Esami-i müftüyan-ı Al-ı Osman
Title: اساميء مفتيان آل عثمان
Incipit: حضرت مولانا کوراني

A list of the names of Ottoman muftis

Language(s): Turkish

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22.
Author: Ibn-Tāwūs, ʿAli Ibn-Mūsā 1193-1266 Ibn Ṭāʾūs, ʿAlī ibn Mūsā (Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī b. Mūsā), 1193-1266 ابن طاووس، علي بن موسى
Title: Zahrat al-riyāḍ
Title: زهرة الرياض

A treatise on fiqh

Incipit: اما بعد اذكار كتابندن شويله كلمشدر كه حقتعالى بر اغاچ یرتدي اول اغاجك دودت بداغي
Language(s): Turkish

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23.
Author: Anonymous
Title: A collection of seven short treatises on physiognomy
Incipit: اما بعد بو كتابين ترتبى بر مقدمه و يدي مقاله اوزره مقدمه حروف مرموزه بياننده
Language(s): Turkish

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24.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah-’i qiyāfat nāmah-i tafṣīl
Title: Risale-i kıyafet name-i tafsil
Title: رسالۀ قیافت نامه تفصیل
Incipit: هذا مكتوب في التورستره شسع حصال موجودة في تسعة رجال

A treatise on the physiognomy of nine people

Language(s): Turkish

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25.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Iʻlām al-ʻibād iʻlām al-bilād
Title: اعلام العباد اعلام البلاد
Incipit: هذا رساله مسماه باعلام العباد اعلام البلاد
Colophon: تم الكتاب...وکان فراغ من نسخته علی ید...سلیمان بن عبد الله...تاریخ مستهل شهر رمضان المظفر فی سنه 1037

A geographical work on towns in the Ottoman Empire and their distance from Istanbul and their relative position to it

Language(s): Turkish

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26.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Four charts, one showing the position of Islamic towns in relation to Mecca
Language(s): Turkish

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27.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two official documents, one written in diwani script and the other in the siyakat script
Language(s): Turkish

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28.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two calligraphic panels
Language(s): Arabic

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29.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sukkarnāmah
Title: Sükkername
Title: سكرنامه
Incipit: هذا کتاب سکرنامه...بو کتاب اسکندر ذو القرنین زماننده تأليف ايلمشدر و هند حاكملري و عالملري صنامشلردر

A folk story about kings of India in the time of Alexander the Great

Language(s): Turkish

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30.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Bu risal ayların nahs günlerin bayan eder
Title: بو رسال ایلرون نحس کونلرین بیان ایدر

A treatise in verse on the inauspicious days of the month

Language(s): Turkish

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31.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Ghurrah nāmah
Title: Gurre-name
Title: غره نامه
Colophon: تم الكتاب...وکان فراغ من نسخته علی ید...سلیمان بن عبد الله...تاریخ مستهل شهر شعبان المعظم سنه تسعه وثلاثين بعد الالف من هجره النبويه

An astronomical treatise on finding the first day of every lunar month, with sixteen charts

Language(s): Turkish

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32.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Part of a Persian commentary on the Koran
Incipit: و بیک ملاطفۀ لطیفۀ انی جاعل فی الارض خلیفه
Language(s): Persian

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33.
Author: Anonymous
Title: A commentary in Arabic on surah 23 of the Koran, surat al-mu'minun
Incipit: قد افلح المؤمنون
Language(s): Arabic

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Author: Anonymous
Title: An unidentified commentary in Turkish on the Koran
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد اول واجب الوجوده كه عامى خلق
Language(s): Turkish

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Physical Description

Form: codex
1b-17b f. 18b-26a f. 26b-52a f. 53a-69a f. 69b-73a f. 73a-81b f. 81b-87b f. 87b-88b f. 88b-92a f. 92b-98a f. 102b-104b f. 105b-109a f. 111a-114a f. 114b-115b f. 117b-127b f. 128a-129b f. 130a-131b f. 131b-133b f. 133b-139b f. 140a-141b f. 142a-142a f. 142b-156a f. 153b-163b f. 164a-176a f. 176b-192a f. 192b-193b f. 196b-197b f. 198a-198b f. 199b-202a f. 199b-208b f. 209b-254b f. 255a-255b f. 256b-257b f. 257b-268b f.
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History

Origin: 1045 AH; 1635 CE 1035 AH; 1626 CE 1035 AH; 1626 CE 1037 AH; 1627 CE 1037 AH; 1627 CE 1039 AH; 1630 CE

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