[Şemsiye] - [شمسيه]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 11928
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1164
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 2 texts 155 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 155 ff. Dimensions : 220 mm x 156 mm. Ruling : The Şemsiye was copied within red-ruled text frames. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following two works :. (I) ff 1v-125v : Şemsiye, a treatise in verse on the prognostics to be drawn from meteorological phenomena according to the month of the solar year in which they appear, written by Yazıcı Salahaddin in 811 AH (1408-09 CE). There is a table of contents at the start of the text. The work was copied in 1164 AH (1750-51 CE);. (II) ff 126r-155v : Melheme, a prose tract that is to all intents and purposes an abbreviation of the poem already mentioned. It is said to be by Yazıcı Salahaddin. This treatise was also copied in 1164 AH (1750-51 CE) in the same hand as that of the Şemsiye. The volume contains a single unvan.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher on 30 December 1949.

Related Material

For Cevri's recension of the Melheme, see Or 1170 and Or 13366. For more information about Yazıcı Salahaddin, see OM III, pp. 307-09; and HOP I, pp. 389-90. For more information about Melheme, see OM I, p. 194. For more information about Salaheddin, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 193-94.