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Author	Maḥmūd b. Ḳaḍı Manyas alias Manyasoġlı
Work Title	ʿAcebu’l-‘Uccāb (Marvels of the Marvelous)
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Manuscripts	There are 11 known manuscripts. According to Şermin Kalafat, Princeton University Library Islamic Manuscripts N. 1010 may be the autograph one. See: Şermin Kalafat, “Anadolu (Osmanlı) Sahasında Yazılmış En Eski Tarihli Türkçe Matematik Risâlesi: Mahmūd bin Kādì-i Manyās’ın Aʿcebü’l-ʿÜccāb’ı”, Turkish Studies XII/30 (2017), 243-298:251-252.
Editions	Zeynep Buçukçu, “Mahmud bin Kadı-i Manyas’ın A’cebü’l-‘Üccâb Adlı Eserinin Transkripsiyon ve Dizini”, Unpublished M. A. Dissertation, Hacettepe University, 2017, xiv, 723 p.
Date	1437
Content Summary	ʿAcebu’l-‘Uccāb is a composite work dedicated to Murād II (r. 1421-1451). The work is divided in four loosely interconnected sections (maḳāle). The first one is a catechistic text which deals on the one hand with i) the substance of God, ii) the nature of Muḥammad, iii) the essence of angels, demons and the devil] and on the other, with the jurisprudential method (uṣūl-i fiḳh). The second is a separate treatise on arithmetic – seemingly the first one on the subject in Old Anatolian Turkish. The third maḳāle covers divers subjects grouped in four sections (bāb) such as the essentials of zoology, botany and mineralogy; pharmacopeia and the effects of seasons on illnesses and their recovery by numerological methods. The last section is about numerology, talismans and ‘cabbalistic’ matters.
Bibliography	Zeynep Buçukçu, “Mahmud bin Kadı-i Manyas’ın A’cebü’l-‘Üccâb Adlı Eserinin Transkripsiyon ve Dizini”, Unpublished M. A. Dissertation, Hacettepe University, 2017; Fazlıoğlu, İhsan, “Devletin Hesabını Tutmak: Osmanlı Muhasebe Matematiğinin Teknik İçeriği Üzerine”, Kutadgu bilig Felsefe-Bilim Araştırmaları, XVII (2010), 165-178: 166-167, İstanbul, 2010; Şermin Kalafat, “Anadolu (Osmanlı) Sahasında Yazılmış En Eski Tarihli Türkçe Matematik Risâlesi: Mahmūd bin Kādì-i Manyās’ın Aʿcebü’l-ʿÜccāb’ı”, Turkish Studies XII/30 (2017), 243-298; Cevat Sucu, “The Marvelous Sciences in ‘Acebü’l-‘uccāb: Disseminating and Reframing of Occult Knowledge for the Ottoman Audience in the Early Fifteenth Century”, unpublished MA thesis, Central European University 2020. viii-categories astrology; divination; magic; natural sciences; oniromancy; talismanic ix-tags: angelology; catechism; numerology
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