El-Mecma. ([Manisa?, 1707)
A personal note-book (of el-hac Abdullah bin el-hac Abdurrahman, the preacher at the Sultan Valide mosque in Manisa?) -- see ownership statement on fol. 153b. The note-book contains chiefly poetry (whole poems and excerpts), added to which are various other notes and inscriptions, excerpts from books, prayers etc., most of it in the same hand, except for one or two instances of later additions.
Ms. codex.
In Ottoman Turkish (with occasional small sections in Persian and Arabic).
Title from ownership statement on fol. 153b.
The stamp accompanying the ownership statement on fol. 153b is dated '118 (1706-7). Another date present in the ms. is 12 Ṣafar 1113 (1701) -- see fol. 12a.
Written area and number of lines per page vary considerably throughout. Written in a medium-sized taʻlīq in black ink. Glazed European paper with watermarks.
Ownership statement in the name of el-hac Abdullah bin el-hac Abdurrahman, the preacher at the Sultan Valide mosque in Manisa, accompanied by his stamp dated '118 (1706-7) on fol. 153b (inverted).
Keywords: Turkish poetry -- Early works to 1800.; Notebooks -- Turkey -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Turkish -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Turkish -- 18th century; Notebooks -- Turkey -- 18th century