Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3b.
• 17 lines per page. Written in a medium sized, fairly casual naskh in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Substantial water and mildew damage to the paper, especially at the start of the ms. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Short inscriptions and poetry in different hands on fol. 1a-3b, a lot of it illegible due to mildew. Short inscriptions (one in very large scribal naskh) on fol. 101b.
• Incipit: هر دمه كيم دور ايدرلر عالمى هر روز وشب دور ناهموار افلاكه كولرلر روز وشب
• Explicit: در مداد فقرين معينده عدا ايليوب قلدم اكا الفاظ ايشارت كايده تحسين كائنات مصر

Binding note

Brown leather binding with blind fillets around edges of covers. Several 19th century commercial stickers along the spine as repair. Damaged and in very fragile state.

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

184843977

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