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Summary of Contents: رساله دل دانا This MS. was one of the five bought with E. 15 at Constantinople in May, 1901, and is described under the heading "(26) C. 12 (Turkish)" on p. 32 (564) of Further Notes. The author of the poem (or poems, for there seem to be at least two in different metres) is Shaykh Ibrahim Efendi al-Oghláni of Aq-saray. The first begins (f. 1): نهایت هیچ خدايا وصفنه يوق الها علمنه يوق حد و غایت بو ایکیسندن دخی ذاتیله هم مستثنادر عالم و آدمده ظاهر اولان ذات بی همتا دیر The second begins (f. 33): Ff. 110 of 23.4 x 17 c. and 19 ll.; good Turkish nasta'liq with rubrications; transcribed in 1285/1868-9

Author: Shaykh Ibráhím Efendi al-Oghláni of Aq-saray

Title: رساله دل دانا

Title: Risála-i Dil-i Dáná

Comprises (at least) two poems in different metres by the same author; the second begins at f. 33, its opening words not recorded by Browne.

Incipit: نهایت هیچ خدايا وصفنه يوق الها علمنه يوق حد و غایت / بو ایکیسندن دخی ذاتیله هم مستثنادر عالم و آدمده ظاهر اولان ذات بی همتا دیر

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

p.49

See sub classmark C. 12 in "Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of Dervishes Author(s): Edward G. Browne Source: The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Jul., 1907, (Jul., 1907), pp. 533-581.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 110

Dimensions (leaf): 23.4 × 17 cm.

Layout

19 lines

Hand(s)

Good Turkish nasta'liq with rubrications.

History

Origin: 1285/1868-9

Provenance and Acquisition

One of five bought in Constantinople in May, 1901 at the sale of the effects of a Bektashi dervish

Passed to Cambridge University Library in 1936 (the "Browne Bequest").

Record Sources

Description based on "Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of Dervishes Author(s): Edward G. Browne Source: The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Jul., 1907, (Jul., 1907), pp. 533-581. The new class mark and additional information from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University

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