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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7915
Title:: Yusuf ve Züleyha - يوسف و زليحا
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a free translation from the Persian of Jāmī's poem of the same title, compiled by Kemalpaşazade. This poem is one of the author's early compositions, for it was written before 918 AH (1512-13 CE), as shown by the panegyric on Bayezit II as reigning Sultan in the prologue (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 210 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7917
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains two texts by Füzuli and Usuli. The manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Azerbaijani, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 2 texts, 177 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7917 ff 1v-105v
Title:: Divan-i Füzuli - ديوان فضولى
Scope & Content:: This text is the Divan-i Fuzuli, the poetical oeuvre of Fuzuli, with the same prose preface as found in Or 406. The Divan contains the following works: preface (ff 3v-11v); gazeller in the same alphabetical order as in Or 406 (ff 11v-87r); tercibendler (ff 87v-89r); kıt'alar (ff 89r-90v); musedd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Azerbaijani and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 105 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7917 ff 106v-177r
Title:: Divan-i Usuli - دیوان اصولی
Scope & Content:: This text is the Divan-i Usuli, the poetry of Usuli, from Yeniçe-yi Vardar, containing mesneviler with three gazeller at the end (ff 106v-112v); alphabetical gazeller with the heading Divan-i Usuli Efendi Diyarbakıri, in which the first gazel is the third one found in Or 1151, f 32v; additional ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 72 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7918
Title:: İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 text, 251 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7919
Title:: Divan-i Naili - ديوان نائلى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the poetical works of Naili (Yenizade Mustafa Efendi), native of Istanbul, who died in 1077 AH (1666-67 CE) and was occasionally known as Naili-yi Kadim. He was the Secretary of the Divan. The Divan is arranged in a manner that is substantially different from the order and...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 31 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7920
Title:: Divan-i Nabi - ديوان نابى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collected poetry of Nabi. In a versified prologue to the gazeller, Nabi states that a collection of his poems made by some learned man (who is not named) in Istanbul had become incomplete, given the number of poem he had composed since its compilation, and that Silahda...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1177
Extent:: 1 text, 115 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7922
Title:: Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Divan of Baki, the greatest lyric poet of the Ottoman Empire. The Divan begins with fifteen kaside with the following contents: (I) f 2v : In praise of Sultan Mehmet III; (II) f 3r : Elegy on the death of Süleyman's daughter, Princess Mihr ü Mah; (III) f 4v : On the ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1046
Extent:: 1 text, 101 ff

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