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This volume contains the Ottoman Turkish divan of Fuzuli with a prose preface by the author known as the Dibaçe-yi Fuzuli.

In the preface, the author, after dwelling on the many years spent by him in the cultivation of poetry and in pursuit of science, relates how a beloved friend of his told him that he alone wrote with equal ease and elegance both prose and verse in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish, and that, while his Persian gazeller and his Arabic rajaz were a source of delight to many, it was not fit that a speaker of Ottoman Turkish should be left unprovided for. Although then engaged on work of higher importance, the poet yielded to his entreaties and hastened to collect the Ottoman Turkish verses of his youth. He hopes that the fact of his never having left his native land of Iraq Acem will not lower him in the estimation of Turkish readers.

The contents of the divan are: preface (f 3v); gazeller in alphabetical order (f 9v); a muhammes, a müseddes, and a murebbaat (f 86r); kıt'alar (f 90r); rubaiyat arranged alphabetically (f 96v).

There are some additional pieces in the margins of the work.

The text contains two ornately illuminated unvans.

The manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.