Sezaî Divanı. - Sezaî, 1669-1738. (1813)
A divan.
Ms. codex.
In Ottoman Turkish.
Title from fol. 1a.
19 lines per page. Written in a small taʻlīq in black ink. Text is written inside a frame made with gold leaf outlined in black ink, with columns and verses inside the frame also separated with gold leaf. Fol. 1b-2a have a foliage pattern in gold ink between the two columns inside the text frame, and fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) executed in gold leaf with blue, red, orange, green and white watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a has several short inscriptions, chiefly couplets of verse, one of them dated '228 (1813).
Black grained paper over pasteboard. Green leather on spine, decorated with small blind stamps of geometrical patterns, and one section colored in red. Endleaves in blue paper.
Robert Garrett, Class of 1897
Keywords: Manuscripts, Turkish -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Turkish