- Language(s)
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Turkish, Ottoman
- Published
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[1650-1699?].
- Summary
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Fine "agenda" format volume containing assorted excerpts from the collected poems of several Turkish poets, including Riyâzî (d.1644), Zekeriyazade Yahya Efendi (d.1644), Ganîzâde Nâdirî Mehmet Efendi (d.1626), Azmîzade Mustafa Haletî (d.1631), Sabrî (Mehmet Şerîf b. Ahmed İlmî Edirnevî, d.1646), Nevizade Atayi Ataullah b. Yahya (d.1635), and Veysî (Üveys b. Mehmet Alaşehrî, d.1628), as well as from Riyâzî's biographical dictionary of poets ; contents listing on added leaf at opening (p.3). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1045
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; contents, paper, etc. would suggest mid to late 17th century.
Accompanying materials: Descriptive notes on University of Michigan letterhead in hand of Eleazer Birnbaum, signed ("E. Birnbaum") and dated May 26 1964, "Turkish MS. written in a taʻlīk hand. 204 ffol. 'Title' on first flyleave مجموعه دواوين شعرا = Memūʻa-yı Devāvīn-i Şuʻarā | 'Collection of Turkish Divans.' Contains 1. Divan of Riyāzī Efendi and his Sāḳī-nāme and his Rubāʻīyat (Quatrains) 2. Yaḥyā Efendī's Sāḳī-nāme 3. Dīvān of Nādirī Efendi 4. Divan of Ḥaletī Ef. 5. Tezkere-i Şuʻarā of Riyāzī Efendi (incomplete) [= Biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets] 6. Divan of Sabrī [d. 1645] 7. Dīvān of Nevʻīzāde ʻAtāʼī [1583-1634] 8. Divan of Veysī Efendi [1561-1628] 9. Muḳaddime of Ḳaysūnzāde | Copy ca. 17-18th cent."
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in shell marbled wove paper (mainly in shades of blue) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped lozenge ornament filled with symmetrical vegetal composition set off by gold-painted accents, as well as gold-painted rule borders ; now sewn in white thread, six stations, tightly bound ; worked chevron endbands in white and olive green, excellent condition ; overall in fair condition with some negative draw in covers, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, minor delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine (rebacked) and board corners in dark mauve-brown leather ; housed in custom box for protection.
Support: European laid paper of several types ; main type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of latin cross in heart with initials "B S" above (see p.74, 388, etc.) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced roughly 33 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of three circles with crescent in uppermost and initials in middle, cross above (see p.110, 120, 130, 150, 244, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced roughly 25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of paschal lamb (see p.154, 156, etc.) ; all thin and quite transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; some leaves tinted yellow, pale blue or pink ; other watermarks include "V d" / "b V" under trefoil countermark (p.6), crossbow in circle (p.10) and maltese cross in circle (p.108, 128) ; flyleaves in European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), watermark of crown-star-crescent (see front flyleaf, p.2) and countermark of "S S" under trefoil (see back flyleaf, p.400).
Decoration: Headings and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red (often of names appearing in the verses, i.e. of poet, etc.) ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.
Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; mainly an elegant Turkish / Ottoman hand in a medium line ; spacious and serifless with slight effect of inclination to the right, gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes.
Layout: Highly variable, but as many as 41 lines per page, typically in two columns, occasionally on the diagonal with further lines up the center ; frame-ruled.
Collation: ii, II (4), 4 V(44), II+3 (51), 6 V(111), II+2 (117), V (127), IV+1 (136), V (146), V+1 (157), 3 V(187), V-1+1 (197), iii ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (often obscured by guards) ; leaves between sections often left fully or partially blank ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals (possibly supplied by bookseller) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing (includes some flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages between pp.307-308).
Incipit: "معراجية ومدح حضرت سيد الكونين صلى الله تعالى عليه وسلم كم ايتدى جوهرن خاك انجره خورشيد جهان آرا انى بولماغه غريال ايتدى حاضر طارم والا ..."
Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.2).
Ms. codex.
Description of contents "Türk Diwansammlg. Rijāzī, Jaḥja, Nādirī n. a." and possible inventory marks (including "O16 / 1559," "82," "Or. Hr. XII") on verso of outer front flyleaf ; birth / naming notices on p.3 and p.257 ; further poetic excerpts at opening and close of codex, as well as between sections ; listing of goods at on back flyleaf (p.398).
- Physical Description
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197 leaves :
paper ;
288 x 102 (250 x 65) mm.