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Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 259 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Two different divans by Kaimi, with a short selection of poetry at the start entitled "Der nutk-i Celali Efendi".

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from lower and upper edges of text block.
• Ms. additions: 1 loose sheet with a talisman in black ink: 3 large concentric circles in the middle, with series of numbers in the centre with invocations around them; surrounded by 7 small circles, each with different combinations of the words Allāh and Muḥammad. 1 loose, folded sheet with a letter, in Arabic, from Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Sanūsī (1844-1902), the son of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Sanūsī (1787-1859) and leader of the Sanūsī order in Libya founded by his father, to Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn. The letter itself is dated Shaʻbān 1304 (1887), but is then followed by an inscription containing the name al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Sanūsī al-Mahdī and date 1276 (1859-60) [referring to his father and the date of his death?].
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small taʻlīq with elements of ruqʻah in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Two different types of glazed European paper.
• Origin: Both main texts and the short preliminary text appear to be in the same hand. Text 2 is signed by the scribe and dated: copied by Derviş Ebubekir in 1202 (1787-88) -- colophon text 2 (fol. 27b). The ink and the paper in text 3 are different and thus, although possibly written by the same scribe, the text is probably of a slightly later date.
• Incipit: [ديوان قائمي] بحمد الله بو دملرده بزه توفيق ايدوب بارى صتاشدك حواجيه حقا ايده لم قوتلو بازارى -- [ديوان شيخ حسن قائمي] قنده ايسك حق سنكله قائم دائم اوله بردن آرتق بولنمازسن كندينه كل كير يوله
• Explicit: [ديوان قائمي] هدايت ايريشوب او عليايه كوجندن صور -- [ديوان شيخ حسن قائمي] توحيد ايجره جانيله كوريشور الله الله ديكن قوللر واريكن

Binding note

Marbled paper over pasteboard with evidence of brown leather around edges of covers. Spine binding missing and only the fabric underneath remains. Envelope flap loose inside the covers. Pastedowns in cream paper. Binding very fragile and some worm damage to the paper.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish;

Script

• Taʻlīq;
• Ruqʻah.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a: Der nutk-i Celali Efendi.
• 2. fol. 2b-27b: [Divan-i Kaimi]. The shorter of the two divans of Kaimi, also known as Varidat.
• 3. fol. 28b-102b: Divan-i Şeyh Hasan Kaimi. The longer of the two divans of Kaimi.

Provenance

• Ownership signature, accompanied by a faint circular stamp in blue ink, in the name of Süleyman Efendi on fol. 1a. Same stamp on fol. 2a. Another stamp in black ink on fol. 2b.
• Ownership statement in the name of Derviş Ahmet Efendi, dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal [?] 1336 (Dec. 1917-Jan. 1918), on fol. 28a. Same fol. has a completely obliterated stamp of a previous owner, and the same of fol. 28b.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 2 (417-8).

Other title(s)

• Haza Divan-i Şeyh Hasan Kaimi.
• Divan-i Şeyh Hasan Kaimi.

OCLC

162101156

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