Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Owner

• Ahmet Vefik Paşa, 1823-1891 [Browse]

Related name

• احمد وفيق، ١٨٢٣- ١٨٩١ [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Ms. is a collection of the poems of Bagdatlı Fahrı̂zade Esat, aka Abdullah Neşatîzade Mehmet Esat, the divan kâtibı̂ of the Bagdat valisi Ömer Paşa (1763-1776). This copy is undated and no scribe is named.

Notes

• Title from f. 2a.
• A "Şarkı-yı Şakir" is on f. 98a.
• Volume has 98 f. of glazed paper measuring 205 x 138 mm.; text area measures 155 x 96 mm. Text is on f. 2b-97a. Headings, overlinings of author's name in red; catchwords included. F. 1b, 98b are blank.
• Binding is pasteboard covered in red leather with stamped gilded center medallions and borders.
• Incipit, p. [1]: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين جانم اول جان جهان احمد مختاره ضدا مظهر نور خدا قاسم انواره فدا ...
• Explicit, p. [190]: بولرسن جمله اعداديه ظفر بوسال فرخده نفأل ايلدم زيراكه تاريخى ظفر كلدى.
• Colophon, p. [190]: تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب ...

Language note

Turkish in Arabic script.

Provenance

• Gift of Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
• Previously owned by: Kayserili Ömer Nefi̕ Efendi, 1262 [1845 or 1846] -- Inscriptions, f. 2a, 97b; Seyyid Mehmet [?], 17 RA [1]28-[between 1 sept. 1863 and 25 June 1872] --Inscription, f. 2a; Hüseyinefendizade Mehmet Refi, Kadi of Bagdad, purchased ms. from the eslate of Vefik Paşa (possibly Ahmet Vefik Paşa who died in 1891), 21 Eylūl 1309 [30 oct. 1893] -- Inscription, f. 1a.; Mehmet Reşat --Signature, f. 1a.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Other title(s)

ديوان اسعد

Edge title

• Divan-ı Esat

OCLC

122838037

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