Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844, Volum 2H. Colburn, 1846 |
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Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in ..., Volum 2 Charles White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1846 |
Three years in Constantinople: Or, domestic manners of the Turks in ..., Volum 2 Charles White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1846 |
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Side 181 - But it was a prudent precaution in a city, where the calamities arising from accidental fires were frequently augmented by those occasioned by the malevolence of turbulent Janissaries. The regulations of all imperial libraries, as well as those endowed by private individuals, are nearly similar. Those within or attached to mosques are under the guardianship of the church, and those erected in isolated situations are administered by the wakoofya. All possess special and ample funds for their preservation...
Side 185 - The man hesitated, and then, in a lamentable voice, replied, " Allah, Allah ! I suppose my lord will next ask me to wear a hat." Mohammed II., founded in 1470, within the mosque of that Sultan, and placed upon the right side of the minber, (pulpit for Friday prayer.) It contains about 940 volumes, principally theology and jurisprudence. It is celebrated for some fine Koorans. This library, as well as others attached to mosques, is principally frequented by students of the annexed colleges and schools....
Side 180 - Kaliphs, sought to illustrate their reigns, not only by encouraging and rewarding learned men, but by founding establishments wherein their productions and those of their predecessors in the field of instruction and science might be preserved to posterity. The greater part of the treasures of Arabic literature, collected by the Abasside monarchs, perished in the fires that ravaged...
Side 348 - ... may charge upon future ratepayers, and that they should be bound to pay off their debts within a limited period. What such restrictions or limitations should be is a matter which we cannot undertake to settle, and must be left to be determined from time to time by the government and by Parliament. It may, however, be laid down as a general rule that the amounts to be borrowed, and the purposes to which they may be applied, should be strictly...
Side 338 - Thou shalt not open a dead body, although it may have swallowed the most precious pearl belonging to another...
Side 182 - The furniture is simple and scrupulously clean. The books, invariably placed in bindings of dark morocco or calf, with a flap cover, in the form of a clasp pocket-book, repose upon their sides. The titles are written upon the outside of the margin, and not upon the binding. Almost all works have a second cover, like a map-case, as an additional protection against damp and insects. The greater part are transcribed upon vellum or highly glazed paper. They are often most richly illuminated with golden...
Side 190 - Parraak gate of the bazaars. This library is more diversified than any other in the capital. Its contents embrace all subjects : among them are many valuable and costly works, splendidly ornamented and illustrated. A magnificent edition of Antar, upon metallic paper, and another of the Gulistan, are not the least curious. It possesses Koorans, and other works transcribed by divers Kaliphs ; and among the curiosities is a collection of portraits of Sultans, from Osman, the founder of the dynasty,...
Side 29 - Water pipes of burned clay or metal, joined and coated with lukium, which, when dry, becomes as hard as stone, resist the effects of humidity for ages. The following is the receipt, as now used by the sou yoljee. Take one hundred pounds of fresh kilned lime, finest quality, reduced to powder, ten quarts of pure linseed oil, and one or two ounces of cotton. Manipulate the lime, gradually mixing the oil and cotton in a wooden trough, until the mixture assumes the consistence of loaf-dough. Let it dry,...
Side 11 - ... the left. From this cause, perhaps, garlic is held not less sacred by the Persian yezidy, or devil-worshippers, than was the Nile lotus by the ancient Egyptians. On the other hand, it is not uncommon to see a nut of garlic fastened to the hair of children in Turkey as a preservative against the evil eye. In these superstitions, we have an example of Juvenal's — O sanctse gentes ! quibus hsec nascuntur in hortis Namina. The Kurds also pay great respect to onions. They call them " Your Excellency,"...
Side 189 - Mecca. fully ornamented with gold inscriptions, traced by the most celebrated calligraphers of the day : the whole is in character with the light and graceful proportions of the mosque to which it is annexed. It is situated in the inner court, beyond the mausoleum, close to which stands the colossal porphyry sarcophagus, supposed by some to have contained the ashes of Constantine. The number of volumes exceeds 2600. Among these are two Koorans held in great sanctity, one having been transcribed by...