Harvard University, MS Turk 13

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DS ID:

DS10634

Shelfmark:

MS Turk 13

Title:

Kitab-ı usûl-i melhame

Scribe:

Yūnus ibn Saqqā / يونس بن سقا،

Yunus bin Sakkâ WIKIDATA

Date:

1438.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ota

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves, bound in 1 v. ; 17 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bates, Oric, 1883-1918

Oric Bates WIKIDATA

Note:

Title of book on f. 1r added by later hand.
According to colophon (f. 18r), copy completed at the beginning of Shawwāl 841 AH [April 1438 AD] in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā.
With: Rûz-nâme (ff. 18v-21v).
One folio missing at the beginning.
17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).
Light-cream laid paper. Folios 14-16 worm-eaten.
Written in vocalized naskh, in one column, 11 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red. Words at beginning of sentences either in red or red overlined.
Given by Oric Bates, Boston, September 22 1914.

Keyword:

Astrology

Islamic calendar

Fortune-telling

Divination

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990114151980203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:10382045

Holding Institution:

Harvard University