Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkish poetry—17th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• In Ottoman Turkish.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• 13 lines per page. Written in a small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Text ends on fol. 60b. An abjad table, illegible ownership statement and a very faint stamp on fol. 1a. Two faint stamps on fol. 2a. Several verses in a different hand on fol. 61a. Fol. 62-79 blank. A list of names entitled "Şuhud el-hal" and a short note on fol. 80a. Date Jumādá al-Ākhir 1198 (1784) followed by a list of dates on fol. 80b. Verses on fol. 81b. Four sheets of poetry from another ms. enclosed inside the lower cover. Substantial water damage to the paper throughout with some loss of text.
• Incipit: ايآ وزير صلابت پنا پاك نحصاد هربرصف شكن پشيۀ نزال وطراد
• Explicit: پير مغانى ... كه بربر ثراددر بنت العنب ديدكلرى ام الفساددر

Binding note

Marbled paper on covers with brown leather on spine and around cover edges. Binidng is damaged and most of the ms is loose inside the covers.

Provenance

Ownership statement on fol. 2a in the name of Yusuf Bahaüddin Beliǧ, dated 28 of Rajab 1282 (1865).

OCLC

122767098

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