Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry [Browse]
• Sufi poetry, Turkish [Browse]
• Bektashi [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Näsimi, approximately 1369-approximately 1418 [Browse]
• Kaygusuz Abdal, active 15th century [Browse]
• Âşık Viranî, active 16th century [Browse]

Contains

Hacı Bektaş Veli, active 13th century. Poetry Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of poetry, which, contrary to the title, in addition to those by Resmî, contains poems by Viranî, Kaygusuz Abdal, Nesimi, Hacı Bektaş Veli etc.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• 17 lines per page. Written in a small casual ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. On fol. 1b-2a the frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has a simple illuminated head piece in gold leaf with blue and red watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks.

Binding note

Brown paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine. Pastedowns in yellow paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

181213491

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