Lot 1
A COLLECTION OF OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPTS
TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 10 December 2025 from 14:00 GMT
Description
mainly 19th-century, in naskh script, including:
Treatise on fiqh, probably Ibrahim al-Halabi, Multaqa al-Abhur, 19th century, in Arabic, riqa’ script, text outlined in red, a large fragment only (foliated 73-185), modern boards, 22 x 14cmReligious primer, in Ottoman Turkish, 19th century, incomplete at end, old leather-backed boards, 23 x 16cm, binding worn, final leaf with burn-holesVolume of devotional treatises, Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, final text dated 1213 AH (1799/1800 CE), blind-stamped cloth, rebackedAn’am-i Sharif, 1214 AH (1800 CE), in Arabic, copied by Umar bin Ibrahim of Yozgat, gilt roundels and headpieces, repairs and restoration to text and binding, filigree binding, 17 x 11cmDevotional notebook including poems, oblong-bound, Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, various hands and scripts, calligraphy specimen at front, probably 19th century, 11 x 17cmCalligraphic poetry, probably Ottoman Turkish, nasta’liq script, oblong-bound, multicoloured paper, c.1900, 9 x 24cmPoems, Ottoman Turkish, oblong-bound, mid-19th century, 11 x 21cmNotebook, Ottoman Turkish, oblong, covers largely missing, 19th century, 11 x 23cmVolume of religious texts including Surat Yasin, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, different hands, ownership inscription of one Ali Agha Efendi, 1226 AH, worn leather binding with filigree floral lozenge, leather on front board perished, cloth spine, 10 x 7cmArabic and Turkish religious texts commencing with the Fatihah, illuminated unwan, in wallet, tape-staining to rear, final leaf detached, 11 x 8cmVolume of extracts including the Fatiha and Surat Ya-Sin from the Qur’an, Arabic and Turkish, condition poor, 10 x 8cmTaftazani, Sharh al-Shamsiyah fi-Qawa’id al-Mantiqiya [i.e. ‘An Explanation of Shamsi’s work on the Rules of Logic’], in Arabic, naskh tending to nasta’liq, 19th century, binding defectiveReligious primer, Ottoman Turkish, worn paper boards, 21 x 16cm