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Or 405
- Record Id:
- 032-003441278
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003441278
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075636754.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 405
- Title:
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Leyli və Məcnun - ليلي و مجنون
- Scope & Content:
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An Azerbaijani recension of the masnavi Leyla va Mecnun by Fuzuli copied on 1st of Rebi ül-sani 1075 AH (1664 CE).
The manuscript contains two unvans as well as 23 half-page miniatures throughout the text.
In the prologue, f. 13v, the author relates how the subject of the poem was forced upon him by some literary friends from Rum, who remarked that the tale of Mecnun and Leila, many versions of which existed in Persian, had not yet been told in the Turkish language. The prologue concludes with panegyrics on the reigning Sultan and on the governor of Baghdad, neither of whom is mentioned by name.
The poem is probably one of the latest compositions of Fuzuli; he refers to himself in the epilogue, f. 97v, as one whose life is nearly spent.
The metre is that of Nizami's Leyla u Mejnun, which has been adopted by most of his imitators.
The copyist of the manuscript has been identified as Mehmet Reza-yi Ardabili.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003441278
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003441278
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 80 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Azerbaijani
- Scripts:
- Arabic (nastaliq Variant)
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1075
- Date Range:
- 1075
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper
Dimensions: 222 x 121 mm
Foliation: European, 90 ff.
Ruling: gold-ruled margins
Script: Nastaliq
- Custodial History:
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Folio 1r contains the inscription :
Laylī Majnūn maʾahu taṣvīrāt bi-zabān-i turkī; Kurnīl Jārj Vilyam Hamiltun ṣāḥib-i bahādur.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the Widow of Col. Geo. W. Hamilton April 1868.
- Information About Copies:
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Paris, p. 322, no. 316 and p. 333, no. 331; Uppsala, no. 201; Munich, no. 185.
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 206-207.
- Publications:
- The poem has been printed under the title of Manzume-yi Fuzuli in Istanbul, 1264 AH (v. Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, vol. III, p. 311). It has also been lithographed in Tabriz, 1274 AH.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- This poem is mentioned in the Table of Contents in a Sakinameler Mecmuası Add MS 7925.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 7925
Or 7103