This volume contains the poems of ᶜUrfī (died 999 AH/1590-91 CE), with a word-by-word explanation of each verse in Ottoman Turkish, followed by a connected prose translation entitled Maal-i beyt. The work begins with the Bahāriyah dar sitāyish-i Sulṭān Ḥusayn. Several of the poems have margina...
This volume is a scrapbook containing a collection of Ottoman Turkish songs arranged according to the makamat. Most of them are semailer, ilahiler and besteler, but there are also some şarkılar and musical settings of gazeller and rubailar by various poets, including Fuzuli and Baki. A number of...
This volume contains a religious and ethical mesnevi by Yusuf (see ff 11v, 101v, 115r) in alternating sections of irregular length in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Although the author of this work refers to sine and çak more than once, it is clear that the poem is not by Yusuf Sineçak bec...
This volume contains the collected poetry of Baki (died 1008 AH/1600 CE). The divan begins with a kaside, followed by gazeller (f 29v), and then gazeller in Persian (ff 110r-v). After these come kıt'aat (ff 111r-113r). The text contains a single unvan. The name of the copyist appears on f 28...
This volume contains an allegorical mesnevi consisting primarily of a long dialogue between the author, Ali Dede Bey İbn-i İdris Hacci, and Hikmet. According to the Persian prose preface, the author, who belonged to the district of Taşköprü in the province of Kastamonu and was of the family of...
This volume contains the poetical works in both Ottoman Turkish and Persian of Fasih Ahmet Dede (died 1111 AH / 1699-17000 CE), who belonged to the Mevlevi Tarikat. The initial section of the volume is in Ottoman Turkish and contains the following components: (I) ff 2v-10v : Kasideler follow...