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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A selection from Nef'î's divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by Osman Kemamî in 1262 (1846) -- colophon (fol. 24a). Following this is a note (in the same hand) about saying a prayer for the author, ending in the date :"sene 1152" (1739-40) [?].
• 10 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Fol. 1b has a simple text frame outlined in black and gold ink. Fol. 15b-16a have single line text frames in red ink. Throughout, the text is written in two columns, diagonally. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a and 24b both have additional verses written in the same hand. Few short inscriptions on front and back endleaves. "Divani Nefi" written in pencil on the recto of front flyleaf.
• Incipit: شاه عشقم عالم معنى مسلم در بكا خلق عالم بر نفس شاد اولمغه جانلر ويرر
• Explicit: طبع نفعى كبى پرواز بلنداته نولا افتاب سايه صالمش بر همادر طره سى

Binding note

Green paper embossed in flower pattern over pasteboard on covers, with brown leather on spine. Endleaves in yellow paper strengthened at the spine with strips of red, black and white pattern decorative paper. Label on upper cover: "291".

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

OCLC

170884001

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