[Mecmua] - [مجموعه].

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 9703
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex 222 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 222 ff. Dimensions : 270 mm x 180 mm. Script : Nestalik (primarily).

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following contents :. (I) f 1v : An Arabic prayer and a gazel by İzzet;. (II) f 2r : An Ottoman Turkish İlahi;. (III) ff 2v-4r : Ḥikāyat-i Sulṭān al-ᶜārifīn Bāyazīd-i Bisṭāmī (حکایت سلطان العارفین بایزید بسطامی), a Persian poem;. (f 4v blank). (IV) ff 5r-v : Another ilahi and some notes on various books;. (V) f 6r : An Arabic poem;. (VI) ff 6v-7r : A Persian poem about asceticism;. (ff 7v-8r blank). (VII) f 8v : A Persian poem;. (VIII) f 9r : A note in Ottoman Turkish about treating an illness of the ear;. (IX) f 9v : A verse by Şems-i Tabrizi;. (X) ff 10r-11r : Arabic notes and prayers;. (XI) ff 11v-14r : A Persian commentary on some of the poetry of Celaleddin Rumi;. (f 14v blank). (XII) ff 15r-v : An Arabic poem;. (XIII) ff 16v-29v : Parables in Persian;. (XIV) ff 29v-33v : Acabü'l-acayıp, by Manyasoğlu;. (f 34r blank). (XV) ff 34v-37r : Notes on diet and other health and hygiene issues according to what the sages of both the Hellenistic and Islamic traditions have prescribed;. (XVI) ff 39r-41r : A dialogue between the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and Fatima;. (f 42v blank). (XVII) f 43r : Notes in Arabic;. (XVIII) ff 43v-61r : Portions of a commentary on the Qur'an in Persian written by Mubārak Fayẓullāh Sinānī, as well as a collection of Aḥādīth in Persian and anecdotes of various holy persons. The margins (ff 47v-61r) carry a Persian tract on eschatology entitled Rāḥat al-qulūb (راحت القلوب);. (XIX) ff 61v-89r : A story in Persian that does not have a title;. (XX) ff 89v-92r : A mystical and devotional tract in Persian;. (XXI) ff 92v-127r : An Arabic tract entitled Baḥr al-kalām (بحر الكلام) by al-Nasafī and dated 1127 AH (1715 CE);. (XXII) ff 127r-134r : Arabic extracts;. (XXIII) ff 134r-137r : Risālat dāfiᶜ al-mufīdīn (رسالة دافع المفيدين);. (XXIV) Waṣiyat (وصية) of ᶜabd al-Qādir Gilānī in Arabic, followed by Faḍā'il al-fuqarā' (فضائل الفقراء) also in Arabic;. (XXV) ff 140v-142r : Risālat al-ṭarīq (رسالة الطريق), a Sufi treatise by Necmüddin Kübra;. (XXVI) ff 142v-169r : Tracts and other pieces in Arabic;. (XXVII) ff 169v-171r : Ahdname-yi Sultan Murad-i evel berayi Hacci ve Gazi Evrenus ;. (XXVIII) ff 171v-173v : On the prayers to be said on special occasions (in Ottoman Turkish);. (XXIX) ff 174r-209v : Notes and other tracts in Arabic;. (f 210r blank). (XXX) ff 210v-219v : Menakıb-i Emir Sultan, in Ottoman Turkish;. (XXXI) f 220r : A note in Arabic;. (XXXII) ff 220v-222r : Şemailname, a tract on physiognomy;. (XXXIII) f 222v : A collection of names of Mevali, Kadılar, and Kaziaskerler. Persian parables are further interspersed among the other texts over the sections ff 40v-61r and ff 174v-200r. The pieces in this volume were written in a variety of hands, probably in the 18th century CE.

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