Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from an added note in pencil on fol. 1a.
• 21 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Fol. 38b has obliterated verses of poetry. Fol. 39 is half torn and has several short verse inscriptions on both sides.
• Incipit: نعت شريف اى نبوت تحتنك شاهى حبيب كبريا وى رسالت اوجنك ماهى حبيب كبريا
• Explicit: سلوكى اهل تجريدك شهودى حال تفريدك اوچنچى رتبه توحيدك يولك جولان ايدنلردر

Binding note

Half leather binding with marbled paper over pasteboard on covers and red leather on spine and around cover edges. Pastedowns in yellow paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Özege, M.S. Eski harflerle, 4247.

OCLC

122846043

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