MS. Laud Or. 48 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Laud Collection
Contents
A vast poetical anthology
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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Giving specimens many poets, viz. Laʿlī (see No. 2144), ʿIlmī, İsḥāk, Yaḥyā Beg, Celāl or Celāl Efendi (see two poets of that name in Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. pp. 396 and 397), whose mes̠nevī in honour of Sulṭān Selīm (probably Selīm II) is quoted here, beginning on fol. 2b: ينه شوقم بلوردی جوشم وار موج دریا کبی خروشم وار. Celālī (who may be identical with the preceding poet), Ẕātī, Bāḳī, ʿUlvī, Nesīmī (an older poet of that name, Seyyid ʿImādüddin Nesīmī, who was put to death in Aleppo, AH 820=AD 1417, is mentioned in Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, i. p. 124; Rieu, p. 1658; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 365; Laṭīfī, p. 299 sq., and H. Khalfa, p. 318, No. 5714), ʿİşret, Fużūlī, Necāt, Bihiştī, etc. Two ta'rīḫāt on the death of Sulṭān Süleymān, AH 974, on fol. 24, and several other chronograms for AH 974 and 975. A single prose piece on fol. 19b, beginning: قال على كرم الله وجهه.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of varying number of lines per page
Hand(s)
(Hand 1) Script: Nesḫ
(Hand 2) Script: Nestaʿlīḳ
(Hand 3) Script: Dīvānī
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.
Donated to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop William Laud, 1635-41.
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