Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• 15 lines per page. Written in a small casual ruqʻah in gold ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Two types of paper: glazed wove paper, re-glazed with egg-albumen, and dark cream glazed paper with prominent chain and laid lines and "GE & WH" watermark. Fol. 1 pasted to the front flyleaf.
• Explicit: ايلمش طرح تكلف نكهكله دل وجان برى آشفته برى مست برى ديوانه
• Incipit: نطق افرين كه طبعمه فيص مقال ايدر الهام نعت مفخر اصحاب وآل ايدر

Binding note

European binding in brown leather with gold tooled border design on upper and lower covers made with foliage pattern rolls and corner pieces. Small gold stamps in the centre of covers. Gold roll, fillets and gold tooled title "Divan-i Nailî" on spine. Endleaves in green marbled 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, 4200.

OCLC

122868686

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