Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A partial version of Nabi's Turkish divan. The date of the production of the copy is contained within a complex chronogram which follows the end of text on fol. 90b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Text is written as two horizontal couplets followed by one diagonal, one vertical and again one diagonal row, followed by two more horizontal couplets, in 22 lines per page. Written in a medium sized, fairly casual naskh in a faded black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, frame ruled for the diagonal rows of text. Paper damage at the start and at the end, with repairs and some loss of text.
• Incipit: اى ذاتمى جامع ليليان بارخط قيل طاعتكه جماعتم يا برجا
• Explicit: اولدى اون جزئى كلام اللهك لفظ موجز له ايدر جلوه مدام خاتمه كيمكه بو مشكلى حل ايلرسه ... تاريخى دنيلمشدر انوك ترجمهء عشق ... تاريخ

Binding note

Red leather with green and yellow marbled paper on covers.

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.

OCLC

122341616

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