Vatican Manuscripts from the Vaticani Turchi/Turkish Fond

446 signatures, 428 elements. Many of the missing signatures were transfered into the Vat.arb and Vat.pers collections. pp. 658-663

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Vat.turc.5, Devotional Work (17th C)
Vat.turc.10, Devotional Text in Arabic and Turkish (17th C)
Vat.turc.12, Devotional Work (17th C)

Includes some magical diagrams, text a mix of Arabic and Turkish

Vat.turc.13, Devotional Work (17th C)

In both Turkish and Arabic, begins with Sura 1 of the Quran

Vat.turc.15, Devotional Work (1549)

Dated Rabi' II 956 AH. Ownership mark for Pervane ibn 'Abdullah of Esztergom, Hungary

Vat.turc.23, Hoga Sa'dun-Din Tag ut-tevarih (17th C)

Part 1 of an Ottoman Chonicle, covers up to the reign of Mehmed II. Continues in Vat.turc.24

Vat.turc.24, Hoga Sa'dun-Din Tag ut-tevarih (17th C)

Part 2 of an Ottoman Chronicle, through Bayazid II and Selim I. Continues from Vat.turc.23

Vat.turc.25, Mahmud b. 'Utman b. 'Ali, called Lama'i Calebi Futüh al-mušahidïn li tarvïh al-mugâhidïn (17th C)

Turkish translation of the Persian original. Biography of Gami

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Vat.turc.28, Liber Salomonis
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Vat.turc.52, ʿAbdī Mūsā Cāmāsb-nāme (16th C)

See The Islamisation of Anatolia Database

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Vat.turc.62, One Thousand and one Nights (tr) (17th C)

Begins in night 675 and ends at 700

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Vat.turc.87, Hibatullah ibn Ibrahim Sa'atname (1838-1839)

Dated 1254 AH. Described as "Book of Hours of Universal Judgement", a devotional and escatalogical work

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Vat.turc.138, Husain Va'iz-i Kašifi, Fuzuli di Bagdad (tr) Hadiqat us-su'ada (1618)

Dated Ramadan 5, 1027 AH (August 26 1618). Turkish translation of a Persian original

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Vat.turc.151, Qara Celebi- Zade 'Abd ul-'Aziz Dail rauzat ul-abrar (1865)

dated Sha'ban 1281 AH (January 1865)

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Vat.turc.156, ʿAbdī Mūsā Cāmāsb-nāme (19th C)

See The Islamisation of Anatolia Database.

Vat.turc.165, 'Abd ul-Magid Firishte-Zade Asqname (19th C)
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Vat.turc.181, Miscellany (1782)

Dated Shavaal 23, 1196 AH (Oct 1, 1782)

Vat.turc.182, Ali b. Dervish Bayazid at-Tirevi (Sheih Vefa) Maqsad us-sâlikïn (17th C)

A work on mysticism

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Vat.turc.186, Baldirzade Mehmed b Mustafa Rauzat ul-Evliya (18th C)
Vat.turc.187, Hafiz Mustafa Nuzhat ul'ussaq wa rauzat ahl al-widd wa l-wifaq, Commentary on the Qaside of Rasuhi (1729)

See Rossi, E. (1953). Elenco dei manoscritti turchi della Biblioteca vaticana. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vatican. pp. 166-167. in Nashi script, possibly autograph

Vat.turc.189, Virani Baba, Sheih-Zade, et al Risale, Nuqtat ul-bayan, Commentary on the Risale of Virani (19th C)
Vat.turc.190 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.191, Ibl al'Arabi, Nuh Efendi (tr) Sarh fusus al-himam (tr) (18th C)
Vat.turc.192, Nuri Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.193, Rumi, 'Abd ur-Rahim Tersi, et al. Divan, Divan, etc (17th C)
Vat.turc.194, Poetry Miscellany (18th C)
Vat.turc.196, Ahmedi Divan (1447-1448)

Dated 851 AH

Vat.turc.197, 'Askeri Divan (1834)

dated Qa'da 1, 8, 1239 AH (July 5, 1834)

Vat.turc.198, Atif Mustafa Efendi Divan, Munshe'at (18th C)
Vat.turc.199, Mehmed 'Ata'ullah Efendi, et al Miscellany of Poetry and Prose (1817-1818)
Vat.turc.200, Bàqï Dïvân (c. 1592)

Begins with a qasïde in honor of Suleiman II. See Rossi, E. (1953). Elenco dei manoscritti turchi della Biblioteca vaticana. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vatican. pp. 175-176. Dated on f.160v

Vat.turc.201, Mehmed Emin Efendi Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.204, Salagi-Zade Mustafa Efendi Divan (19th C)
Vat.turc.205, Fasih Ahmed Dede Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.206, Rumi, Kemal Ummi Divan, Divan (18th C)

For the first section, up to f.57v, cf. Vat.turc.193

Vat.turc.208 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.209, Ungi-Zade Mustafa Celebi Divan (1657)

Dated Rabi 24, 1067 AH (Feb 9, 1657)

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Vat.turc.212, Fitnet Hanim Divan (1783)

Dated Rabi' II 1197 AH, March-April 1783

Vat.turc.213, Ga'feri Divan (19th C)
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Vat.turc.216, Ibrahim, called Gulsheni Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.217, Ahmed Vasif, Mehmed Hairi Prolog, Divan (19th C)

In both Turkish and Persian. The authors biography can be found on ff.88v-91r

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Vat.turc.219, Azmi-zade Haleti Mustafa Efendi Divan (17th C)

Nastaliq script

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Vat.turc.222, Mahmud Efendi Eshudari (Huda'i) Poetry (1843-1844)

Dated 1259 AH

Vat.turc.223, Oglan-Sheihi Ibrahim Efendi Tasavvufname ve Vahdatname, Divan (1862-1863)

dated 1279 AH, compare to Vat.turc.263

Vat.turc.224, Ismeti, Vegdi Divans (18th C)
Vat.turc.225, Izzet 'Ali Pasha Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.226 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.228, Munif Mustafa Prose and Poetic works (1863)

Dated Shavval 1283 AH (June 1863)

Vat.turc.229, Munif Mustafa Efendi Prose and Poetry (18th C)
Vat.turc.230 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.231 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.232, Nehgi Divan (1676)

dated Rabi' 1087 AH (June-July 1676)

Vat.turc.233, Naqshi 'Ali Aq Kermani Divan, etc (1849-1850)

dated 1266 AH

Vat.turc.234, Nedim Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.235 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.236, Ragib Pasha Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.237, Poetry (19th C)
Vat.turc.239, Yenishehirli Ratib Ahmed Pasha Divan (1813-1814)

dated 1229 AH, a copy of Vat.turc.238

Vat.turc.240, Mehmed Riyâzî Efendi (18th C)

A springtime song in honor of Sultan Murad IV. a gazel in rhyme, finally a rubaiyyat and a fragment. Posession notes from AH 1114 and 1197 on f.1r

Vat.turc.241, Beshiktashi Heggar-Zade Riza-yi Naqshibendi Divan (1781)

dated Sha'ban 1195 AH (July-August 1781)

Vat.turc.242, 'Ali Celebi Riza'i Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.243, Ruhi Divan (1780)

dated Rabi' 25, 1194 (March 31, 1780), cf. Borg.turc.24

Vat.turc.244, Seih 'Omar Rusheni Poetry, etc (18th C)
Vat.turc.246, Sami Mustafa Efendi Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.247, Sami Ebu Bekir asha Divan (1811-1814)
Vat.turc.248, Mustafa Selami Divan (1855)

Dated Shawal 1271 AH, July 1855

Vat.turc.249 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.250, Gulsheni Hasan Dede Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.251, Miscellany of Mystical Poetry (19th C)
Vat.turc.252, Fena'i Mustafa Efendi, Gulsheni Hasan Dede Seza'i Divan (18th c)
Vat.turc.253, Ali Shehri Celebi, Kelim Poetry (18th C)
Vat.turc.254 (Upgraded to HQ)
Vat.turc.255, Ahmed Shemsi Pascia Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.256, Tayyar Mahmud Pasa Divan (19th C)
Vat.turc.257, Tabit 'Ala und-Din Efendi Divan (1762)

Dated Gumada 15, 1175 AH (Jan 11, 1762)

Vat.turc.258, Tabit 'Ala ud-Din Efendi Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.259, Hasan Efendi Divan (18th C)
Vat.turc.260, Husein Vehbi Divan (18th C)
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Vat.turc.266, Miscellany of Poetry (18th C)
Vat.turc.269, Yazigi-Oglu Ahmed Bigan 'Aga'ib ul-mahluqat (Encyclopedia of the Natural World: Astronomy, Geography, Cosmology, Nature) (1655)

dated Sha'ban 1065 AH (June 1655)

Vat.turc.271 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.272, Omar Shifa'i al-Gauhar al-farid fi t-tibb al-galid (18th C)

Treatise on medicine

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Vat.turc.279, Alti Parmaq Mehmed Efendi Nuzhet-i gihan ve nadiret-i zamdan (18th-19th C)
Vat.turc.280, Erzinganli Sadiq Mehmed Efendi Miscellany (19th C)
Vat.turc.281, Medical Miscellany (18th C)
Vat.turc.282, La'li-Zade 'Abd ul-Baqi Efendi Hadiyyat al-mushtaq fi sarh maslik al'ushshaq (1863-1864)

dated 1280 AH

Vat.turc.283, Temimdari o-Temim ed-Dari Hikaye-yi Tamimdari (18th C)
Vat.turc.284 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.286, Dervish Mehmed Muhyi un-Din Gulseni Rashahat-i Muhyi (18th C)
Vat.turc.287, Miscellany of Letters (1775-1825)
Vat.turc.288, Ravzat ul-'ushshaq (18th C)
Vat.turc.292, Qissa-yi Hazrat Yusef ve Zuleiha (1722)

Dated Rabi I 11, 1135 AH (Dec 20, 1722)

Vat.turc.293, Hamdi Yusuf ve Zuleiha (1569)

dated Gumada 977 AH (November 1569)

Vat.turc.294, Miscellany, Philosophy and Mysticism (18th C)
Vat.turc.295, Fahr ud-Din Ibrahim b. Shahriyar Iraqi, Hakim (tr) Lama'di (tr) (1860-1861)

dated 1277 AH, original was in Persian

Vat.turc.296, Mustafa Talib, Ibrahim al-'Iraqi Sharh-i Lama'at (1774-1775)
Vat.turc.297, Nizam ud-Din-Oglu Seifullah Ma'den ul-ma'arif (19th C)
Vat.turc.298, Mir 'Ali Shir Neva'i Megalis un-nefa'is (1581-1582)

Dated 989 AH

Vat.turc.300, Menaqib-i Ebui-Vefa (1574-1575)

dated 982 AH

Vat.turc.301 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.302 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.303, Ali Shihab ud-Din Hamadani, Mustafa b. Sha'ban (tr) Dahïret ul-mulük (tr) (1608)

Colophon on f.266r dates to Rabi 1, 1017 AH (June 15, 1608), scribe: Mahmud b. Hasan

Vat.turc.305, Yazigi-Oglu Ahmed Bigan Durr ul-meknun (1721)

Dated Rabi' 17, 1133 AH(Feb 15, 1721)

Vat.turc.306, Edhem u Huma (18th C)
Vat.turc.307, Faza'il beit ul-maqdis, Faza'il-i Sham-i Serif
Vat.turc.308 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.309 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.312, Mir'at ul-'avalim (18th C)
Vat.turc.313 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.314, Isqi Munsaat (985)

Author and date based on German flyleaf notes

Vat.turc.315, Nesimi (attr) Muqaddimat ul-haqa'iq (19th C)
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Vat.turc.317 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.318, Saqâ’iq-i No'mâniyye (1589)

Dated 10 gumada 997 AH/March 28, 1589

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Vat.turc.321, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Imam-Zade Ahmed b. Mehmed Efendi (tr) Shar'at-i islam (tr) (1590-1591)

Dated 999 AH

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Vat.turc.323, Sinan Pasha Tazarru'-name (1643-1644)

dated 1053 AH

Vat.turc.324 (Low Quality)
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Vat.turc.326, Tedkire-yi Su'ara (1557)

dated 964 AH

Vat.turc.328 (Low Quality)
Vat.turc.329, Miscellany of Mystical Poetry (18th C)
Vat.turc.330, Giridli Resmi Bektashi 'Uyun ul-hidaye (1870)

dated Dhu al-Qadah 12, 1286 AH

Vat.turc.331, Hamdullah ibn Hair ud-Din Vesilat al-itqan fi sharh rusuh allisan fi huruf al-Qur-an (1552-1553)

dated 960 AH, text on the pronounciation of the Quran

Vat.turc.332, Abd ul-Vehhab Hamadàni, Dervîsh Mahmüd (tr) Tevàqib-i menàqib-i Mevldnà (tr) (1603)

dated Du 4, 1011 AH, Nashi script

Vat.turc.333, Miscellany of Mysticism (19th C)
Vat.turc.334, Mahmud b. Utman (Called Lami'i Celebi) Munshe'at (1556)

Dated the start of Shaban 963 AH (Jne 10, 1556), scribe: Ahmed b. Mehmed Uskübî.

Vat.turc.336 (Low Quality)
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Vat.turc.338, Fattahi-yi Nishaburi, Benli Hasan Celebi (tr) Husn u Dil (tr) (1573)
Vat.turc.339, Mahmud b. Utman (Lami'i) Ibretname (17th C)

Nastaliq script

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Vat.turc.343, Mehmed ibn as-sayyid ash-shaih Hamid Mir'at us-salikin (1803)
Vat.turc.347, Niyazi Misti Mehmed Vahdetname o Risalet ut-tavhid (1840-1841)

Dated 1256 AH

Vat.turc.348 (Low Quality)
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Vat.turc.350, Sheih-Zade Nuqtat ul-bayan
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Vat.turc.372 (Upgraded to HQ), Ferman
Vat.turc.373

Labled drawing of the Great mosque of Mecca

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