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Subject(s)

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

Contains

Yahyâ Bey, -1582. Dîvân. Selections [Browse]

Summary note

One of Yahyâ Bey's five mesnevis. The main text ends on fol. 95a, and is followed after the colophon by five more pieces of Yahyâ Bey's poetry, including two mussamats and a kaside. Two of the pieces do not appear in his published Divan (see C̦avușoğlu, M., ed., Yahyâ Bey: Dîvan, Istanbul, 1977).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from the head piece on fol. 2a.
• Copied by Ali bin Mustafa, known as Cayim Zade in the last ten days of Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1008 (1600) -- colophon (fol. 95a).
• 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written in two columns within a frame outlined in red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. The additional pieces which follow the colophon are in same hand and style and seem to have been simply added later by the same scribe. Few short inscriptions on ff. 1b-2a, including a record of a certain Abdurahman Efendi's giving up tobacco and includes the witnesses etc., and several short texts on ff. 106b-108b, much of it verse. Two ownership seals on fol. 2a, one small oblong and one large circular, both almost completely obliterated. The second large seal is also on fol. 106b, but again obliterated.
• Incipit: بو اسم اعظم وطلسم مبهم اولان بسم الله ... جان ودلدن ديلم بسم الله آچه لم سوزله سوز كنجنه راه
• Explicit: كوكده آو ازبلنديله سروش ديدى تاريخنى آنك خاموش 947

Binding note

Cream, olive and red marbled paper over pasteboard. Pastedowns in marbled paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership statement in the name of Mehmet ibn Süleyman on fol. 2a.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

C̦avușoğlu, M., ed., Yahyâ Bey: Dîvan, Istanbul, 1977.

OCLC

1340395106

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