Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team. Image descriptions based in part on CarboniRecord origin: S. (1988)Record origin: Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
The manuscript comprises a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, followed by a glossary that presents further etymological parallels with related Oriental languages. Its method of helping students to identify the root letters of Hebrew words, was first developed by German Orientalist, and Professor of Hebrew, at the University of Leipzig, Elias Hutter (ca. 1553-1609).Contents: A manuscript note by Samuel Rolles Driver (i). Title page (ii). Preface (iii-vii). Dictionary (1r-43v). Glossary (44r-50v).Extent: ff 52. 440 x 280 x 20 mm.Hand: 18th century English hand.Binding: 18th century half-calf over paper boards.Additional information: Rahel Fronda, Jewish Books and their Christian Readers: Christ Church Connections (Oxford: Christ Church, 2017), pp. 92-96.
Illuminated ʻunwān on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated in gold and colored inks; gold dots mark verse endings; text enclosed in borders of gold and black; illuminated foliate roundels in margins mark tenths (ʻushr), thirtieths (juzʼ), sixtieths (ḥizb) of text, and prostrations (sajdah); edges gilt.Date and copyist's name in colophon: sawwadahu aḍʻaf al-ʻibād wa-aḥqaruhum Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-mushtahir bi-Ḥātimī al-mansūb li-marḥūm wa-maghfūr Ṣadrī Aʻẓam Naṣūḥ Pāshā ... wa-waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-muṣḥaf al-karīm fī sanat ithnayn wa-thalāthīn wa-alf fī shahr Jumādhī al-ākhir [i.e. April 1623].Pp. [722-32]: prayers in Arabic and instructions in Turkish for the reading of the Qurʼān.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: With a marginal Turkish trans. in metre of the original only?.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."
Watermark: Scrollwork with crown and lion (?); eagle.Text rubricated; marginal notes in Turkish in another hand.Pp. [1-7]. Bound with: [2] Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥumaydī, Risālah fī al-ālah al-musammāh dhāt al-kursī, pp. [9-24]; [3] Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī, Tashrīḥ al-aflāk, pp. [25-34].Unidentified treatise, in a muqaddimah and nine bābs.
Vakfiyede, Sultan III. Osman döneminin (h. 1754-57) Darü's-saade ağalarından Hacı Ahmed Ağa'nın Kahire'de yaptırdığı okul ve sebilhanenin giderini karşılamak üzere, o tarihlerde Osmanlı Devleti sınırları içinde bulunan Mısır'da Kahire'ye bağlı Mansura, Garbiye ve Kalyub vilayetlerinde vakfettiği mallarına ait gelirlerin kullanım alanları belirlenmektedir. Sultan III. Osman'a edilen Arapça dualarla başlayan metin, Türkçe devam eder ve Ahmed Ağa hakkında bilgiler verilerek vakfın içeriği ayrıntılarıyla anlatılır. Metnin sonunda şahitlerin isimleri ve görevleri verilir.Binding: Eserin siyah deri üzerine soğuk baskıyla yapılmış cildi özgün değildir.Illuminations: Vakfiye, kubbevari haşiyeli bir unvan tezhibiyle başlar. İlk iki yaprağının sayfa kenarları halkâri, satır araları altın yaldızlıdır. Halkâri bezeme, murakkaalarda yazı ve resimlerin çevresini, kitapların kimi zaman ilk veya son sayfalarını, kimi zaman ise tüm sayfaların kenarlarını bezeyen, sulandırılmış altının bir fırça yardımıyla sürüldüğü bitkisel süslerdir. Vakfiyenin unvan tezhibi ve halkarileri, 1750'lerde yaşamış usta bir sanatkârının elinden çıkmış olmalıdır.Measurements: 30,7 x 19 cm; 16 yaprak, sayfada 11 satırScript: Nesih
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."