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Turkish poems, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/11
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Turkish Poems".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Dialogues in Turkish, c 19th century

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/12
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Contains two separate pieces: the first (folio 1-6) consists of 3 dialogues written in a practical Divani script. 1a- Dialogue between a lady and farmer concerning the rainbow. 2b- Dialogue between a gentleman and a lady on man's superiority to woman. 5b- Dialogue between an English lady and a French gentleman on love. Both language and __ are 19th cent. 9 x 6.3 in. Turkish".

Dates: c 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Turkish Manuscript (?), undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Turkish Manuscript ?".


It appears the manuscript is in Persian, and could be a work on grammar.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments, various, c 15th-19th centuries

 File — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Fragments of Arabic, Latin and Hebrew etc. Also some form of shorthand ? A French system used for Greek? persian. Greek. Students's notes."

Dates: various, c 15th-19th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments

Student notes on Gulistan of Sa'di, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/1
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Student's notes on the Gulistan of Sa'di (persian)".


It includes Persian words and their meanings in English.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments

Notes on the Arabic Script, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/2
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Notes on the Arabic script in Arabic and Latin".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments

A notebook on the life of Patriarch Bruno, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/3
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "A notebook on the life of Bruno, the Carthusian Patriarch. Sentences in Arabic and Latin".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments

Notes with diagrams of coins, undated

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/4
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Notes with diagrams of coins, in Persian and Latin".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments

Prayer in Latin, c 1716

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/5
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Prayer in Latin."

Dates: c 1716
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments

Translation of a Letter from the Emperor of Morroco to Admiral Charles Wager, c 18th century

 Item — Box: Or Ms 687 - Box 1
Identifier: Or Ms 687/13/6
Scope and Contents

Transcription of original label: "Latin translation of the letter from the Emperor of Morroco to Admiral Charles Wager, who was then staioned at Gibralter. Arabaic, English, Latin. "

Dates: c 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia / Fragments / Student notes, letters, manuscript fragments