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Add MS 7922
- Record Id:
- 032-003707034
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003707034
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108571006.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7922
- Title:
- Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
- Scope & Content:
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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 death of Süleyman. Of this elegy, only the first seven lines are extent, a leaf or more having been lost ;
(IV) f 5r : Description of the palace of Feridun Bey, wanting the first eleven lines ;
(V) f 6v : In praise of Sultan Süleyman ;
(VI) f 8r : In praise of Mehmet Çelebi ;
(VII) f 9v : In praise of Ali Paşa ;
(VIII) f 11r : In praise of Sultan Selim II ;
(IX) f 12v : In praise of Ali Paşa ;
(X) f 14r : In praise of Kadızade ;
(XI) f 15v : In praise of Mehmet Çelebi ;
(XII) f 17r : In praise of Muftü Ebüsü'ud ;
(XIII) f 18v : In praise of Hoca Saadeddin ;
(XIV) f 19v : In praise of Kubad Paşa ;
(XV) f 21r : In praise of Baba Efendi (Hoca Saadeddin).
The alphabetical series of gazeller begins on f 22v. At the end of the work (ff 97v-101r) are three Muhammesat with a few kıt'aat, mesneviler, and ferdiyat.
The volume contains eight whole-page illustrations in Persian style found on ff 1, 2, 25, 30, 44, 77 and 89. The illustration on f 2 contains two lines of a Persian gazel by Baki. The volume also contains two unvans and various designs in gold along the margins
From the colophon, it appears that this volume was copied for Şah Safi by Bende-yi Şah-i Necef (the servant of Ali) Efşar and was completed on 1 Şaaban 1046 AH (29 December 1636 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003707034
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003707034
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 101 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
Turkish, Ottoman - Scripts:
- Arabic (nastaliq Variant)
- Start Date:
- 1636
- End Date:
- 1636
- Date Range:
- 1046
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper tinted blue and red
Foliation : European, 101 ff
Dimensions : 279 mm x 178 mm
Ruling : Gold-ruled margins
Script : Nestalik
- Custodial History:
- Formerly manuscript no. 606 in the Rich Collection.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from the collection of Claudius Rich.
- Information About Copies:
- For other copies of the Divan, please see Catalogue of Paris, p. 330, no. 285; Leipzig, no. 320; Krafft, p. 73; Uppsala, p. 124; Leiden II, p. 128; St. Petersburg, p. 516; Gotha, p. 167; Vienna I, p. 648; and Munich, nos. 165-66.
- Finding Aids:
- See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 187-188.
- Publications:
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Abdülbaki Mahmud Baki, Divan-i Baki (İstanbul : Mūsıḳa-ı hümāyūn-ı hażret mülūkāne litoğrafya destgāhı, 1276 [1859]).
Abdülbaki Mahmud Baki and Joseph Hammer-Purgstall, Baki's, des grössten türkischen Lyrikers, Diwan (Wien: Beck, 1825).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Selim II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1566-1574
Shāh Ṣafī
Suleyman I, Ottoman Sultan, 1520-1566 - Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
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Other copies of the Divan can be found at Or 7071, 10953 text II, and Add MS 25423.
More information on the author can be found in Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 118-119, in reference to the manuscript Or 1038, Fazailü'l-cihad.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 25423
Or 1036
Or 10953
Or 7071
Or 7084
Or 7085