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...
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 ...
This volume contains the Divan-i Fuzuli, of which the preface has been lost with the exception of the final line. The gazeller, in alphabetical order, begin on f 1v, followed by two terciibentler (f 98r), three muhammesat (f 101v), and then the same müseddes found in Or 406 (f 103v).
This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
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This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers 1909), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seignurie de si haute estori...
SERIES A Papers of Col. Samuel Martin, of Green Castle, Antigua (circ. 1690-1776), and his son Samuel Martin (1714-1788), M.P., Joint Secretary to the Treasury 1756-1762.
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Samuel Martin, b. 1714; son of Samuel Martin; Secretary to the Treasury 1756: Letters and papers: 1695-1788.