MS. Bodl. Or. 4 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
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An album of Turkish songs
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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Hymns, on ff. 1b-9b, 10b-19b, 20b-22a, 47b49b, 52-53b, 58a and b, and 61a-63b.
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Songs of ecstasy for the mystical dance of the dervishes, سماعی (here wrongly written either صماهي or سماهی, comp. Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 611), on ff. 25-32, 41, 44a and b, 51b, 56b, 57a, and 60a and b.
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Popular songs, (see Hammer, etc. i. p. 18), on ff. 32b-41a, 41b and 42, 45-47a, 49b-51a, 53b56, 56b, 57b, and 59a and b.
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Wheels of poetry or praise, i. e. encomiastic enumerations of famous names (see Hammer, etc. iii. p. 603), on ff. 428-44.
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Poetical counterparts or pendants, i. e. intentional imitations of other poems (نظیرة, sometimes wrongly written here نضیرة, see above, No. 2144, and W. Pertsch, p. 37, note 2), on ff. 19b, 20a, and 22b-25b.
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Two ḳıṭʿas, on ff. 10 and b. No compiler's name mentioned. The first hymn begins, on fol. 1b, thus: اول اولو مولائی سوسن سَوْمَكه یار استين اسمنی وبرد ایلسون دایما کار اشتین.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of varying number of lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: Nesḫ
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