Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Doctrines [Browse]
• Naqshabandīyah—Doctrines [Browse]
• Sufi poetry, Turkish—18th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1658 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Köstendilli Süleymân Şeyhi, 1750-1819 or 1820. Risale-yi hakaik il-aşk. [Browse]
• كستنديلي سليمان شيخي، 1750-1819 or 1820. رسالهء حقايق العشق. [Browse]
• كستنديلي سليمان شيخي، 1750-1819 or 1820. ديوان. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of Şeyhi's poetry, followed by a short risale.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from text 1.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Written in a small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Texts are written by a single hand. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Very thin cream wove paper with blind "Bath" crown and floral stamps, and a small section on similar thin wove paper with a blind "Papeterie Orientale, Smyrna" stamp. The paper is of poor quality and there is a lot of ink duplication and many leaves are stuck together.
• Origin: [Hādhā Dīwān] Copied by Seyit el-Hac Ahmet Reşit ibn Seyit Ali Efendi, the naip [of the Nakşibandi order?] of the town of Köstendil, and completed on 11 Rabīʻ al-Awwal [?] '265 (1849) -- colophon (fol. 84a) -- [Risale-yi hakaik il-aşk] Copied by Derviş Reşit [i.e. Seyit el-Hac Ahmet Reşit ibn Seyit Ali Efendi -- see colophon of the preceding text], the naip [of the Nakşibandi order?] of the town of Köstendil, and completed on 24 of Dhū al-Ḥijjah '264 (1848) -- colophon (fol. 144a).
• Explicit: [هذا ديوان] كورسون فلكده سوز نيچه اولور حصم نا بكار -- [رسالهء حقايق العشق] عاشقلر اهل حال وصاحب مقالدرلر تمت
• Incipit: [هذا ديوان] اولور جام هويتدن ايچن عاشقدن ارپيدآ -- [رسالهء حقايق العشق] قلوب انسانه طلوع ايدن آثآر كمال محبت كه عشق اطلاق اولندى

Binding note

Half leather with envelope flap. Brown marbled paper on covers and the envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and a narrow strip around the edges of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-128a: Hādhā Dīwān sharīf qidwat al-ʻārifīn al-Shaykh Sulaymān Shaykhī bi-Kūstandīlī al-Naqshbandī. Şeyhi's divan. The colophon is on fol. 84a, after the "tammat al-mufradāt", but the text continues with Şeyhi's poetry on fol. 85b to fol. 128a, so the latter part was possibly completed slightly later than the date in the colophon.
• 2. fol. 135b-144a: Risale-yi hakaik il-aşk. A short treatise in Sufism. The text proper ends on fol. 143b and is followed by a short excerpt of verses by Şeyhi, entitled "Şiir li-müellif", on fol. 143b-144a.

Provenance

A short inscription in black glitter ink on fol. 1a in the name of Mursizade, dated '81 (1864-65).

Place name(s)

Bulgaria Ki︠u︡stendil

OCLC

163611013

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