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Each of these two texts originally formed part or the whole of a separate volume. They are written on papers with different characteristics. 1. 1v-62v. Hayr-ābād The well-known didactic narrative poem in Ottoman Turkish by Yūsuf Nābī (d. 1124/1712), based on a story in ‘Attar’s Persian Ilāhī-n...
This volume contains the Divan of Mustafa Rahmi Efendi (died 1165 AH/ 1752 CE) of Bakhchysarai (Turkish: Bahçesaray) in Crimea. He was a chronicler and a poet with the mahlas of Rahmi. He was also known as Kırımi Rahmi Efendi. Mustafa Rahmi Efendi served in the offices of the Grand Vizier Nevşe...