ID	18
Author	Cevrī İbrāhīm Çelebi
Work Title	Melḥāme
Alternative Titles	Melḥeme, Mülḥeme-i Cevrī
Manuscripts	library: Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi; MS. number: Çelebi Abdullah nr. 234; no. of folios: 1b-98a library: Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi; MS. number: nr. 2808; no. of folios: 114 For other mss. (58 in total) see Boyraz, Şeref, “Türk halkbiliminin yazılı kaynakları olarak melhemeler” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Hacettepe University 2000, 76-80.
Editions	Numerous 19th-c. printed editions; Boyraz, Şeref, “Türk halkbiliminin yazılı kaynakları olarak melhemeler” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Hacettepe University 2000, 368-610; idem, Fal kitabı. Melhemeler ve halk kültürü, Istanbul 2006, 303-429.
Date	Completed in 1045/1635-6
Content Summary	A reworking of the famous Şemsiyye (Yazıcı Ṣelaḥa’ddīn’s translation of the Persian Uṣūlü’l- melāḥim), in verse; organized along a series of meteorological and astronomical signs for each one of the solar months, it lists prognostications concerning meteorological, political and social events predicted according to the “signs” of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. It also contains a description of the major constellations.
Bibliography	Boyraz, Şeref, “Türk halkbiliminin yazılı kaynakları olarak melhemeler” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Hacettepe University 2000; idem, Fal kitabı. Melhemeler ve halk kültürü, Istanbul 2006 viii-categories astrology; divination; natural sciences
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