MS. Selden Superius 35 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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A collection of Turkish poems
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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Mers̠iyāt or elegies, on fol. 91b. The first, which begins بر کجه ساکن ایدم خانقه عزلتده الخ is by Ġubārī (who may be either Muḥammed Çelebī, died AH 964 AD 1557, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 279, or ʿAbdürraḥmān Çelebī, died AH 974 =AD 1566/1567, ib. ii. p. 328; a third poet with that taḫalluṣ is mentioned, ib. ii. p. 478); the second has no taḫalluṣ; the third, on fol. 94b, is by Ḫayālī Beg (died AH 964=AD 1557, see Rieu, p. 244, and E. J. W. Gibb, p. 196); the fourth is by Mollā Fevrī (died AH 978=AD 1570/1571, see Rieu, p. 211a), on fol. 96b; other elegies by Selmān (probably the one who died AH 979=AD 1571/1572, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 311; another poet of that name is mentioned, ib. i. p. 243), on fol. 100b; Fevrī again (or Fevrī Çelebī), on fol. 101a; Vālihī (probably the one who was contemporary with Laṭīfī, see above, No. 2072, and Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 554; two other poets with the same taḫalluṣ, who died AH 994= AD 1586, and 1008=AD 1599/1600 respectively, are mentioned, ib. iii. pp. 48 and 104), on fol. 1028; Ḫaṭā'ī, on fol. 102b; ʿIşḳī (one of the ten poets of this name was a contemporary of Laṭīfī and Sulṭān Süleymān I, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 469; three others died AH 984 AD 1576, AH 1000=AD 1592, and AH 1026=AD 1617 respectively, ib. iii. pp. 10, 78, and 164), on fol. 103a; and Su'ālī, on fol. 103b.
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Taḫmīsāt and muḫammesāt, on fol. 104a; the second poem is by Necāt (or Necātī Beg, with the original name of ʿĪsā, died AH 914 AD 1508/1509, see E. J. W.Gibb, p. 179; Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, i.p. 168, and Rieu, p.171), on fol. 105a; the third, by Raḥmī Çelebī (died A.H.975 AD 1567/1568, see Rieu, p. 211, or AH 970 AD 1562/1563; see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 290), on fol. 105b; others by Katibi (Seyyid ʿAlī bin Ḥüseyn el-Kātib ar-Rūmī, died AH 970=AD 1562/1563, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 214, and Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 306), on fol. 107a; Ḳadrī Çelebī (under Sulṭān Süleymān I, ib. ii. p. 507), on fol. 107b; Ḫüsrev (probably Ḫüsrev Çelebī Efendi, who died AH 968 AD 1560/1561, ib. ii. p. 283), on fol. 108a; Nişānī (i. e. Muḥammed Paşa, died AH 948=AD 1541/1542, ib. ii. p. 226; another poet of the same name, ib. ii. p. 543), on fol. 108b; and Raḥīmī (Muḥammed Raḥīmī, flourished in the reigns of Süleymān I and Selīm II, AH 926-982=AD 1520-1574, see Rieu, pp. 179b and 180a), on fol. 109a.
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Murabba'āt, on fol. 110b, by ʿUbeydī (died AH 980 AD 1572/1573, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 347; another with the same taḫalluṣ is the Turki poet 'Ubaid-allāh Ḫān, the famous Uzbek prince, see Rieu, p. 300); Şehzāde Sulṭān Bāyezīd (the son of Süleymān I, died AH 969=AD 1561/1562); Bihiştī Efendi (died AH 977 AD 1569/1570, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 333); Ṣanʿī (either the one who died AH 941=AD 1534/1535, or the other poet of the same taḫalluṣ, who died AH 979=AD 1571/1572, ib. ii. pp. 203 and 339; a third one, under Süleymān I, is mentioned, ib. ii. p. 457); Ḥāfıẓ (probably of Konya, died AH 950=AD 1543/1544, ib. ii. p. 238); Mesīḥī Beg (no doubt the well-known lyrical poet who died AH 918=AD 1512/1513; ib. i. p. 297; Rieu, p. 171 sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 384; E. J. W. Gibb, p. 182, etc.); Ḥayretī Beg (died AH 941 =AD 1534/1535, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 212); Emrī Çelebī (died AH 988=AD 1580, ib. iii. p. 15, or AH 983 AD 1575/1576, see Rieu, p. 211; another Emrī is mentioned as translator of the Pandnāma of Farīd al-dīn ʿAṭṭār, in Rieu, p. 154); Yaḥyā Beg (see above, Nos. 2136-2143); Aḥmed Beg; Mollā Keşf (died AH 945 AD 1538/1539, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 222), and Resmī.
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Muʿammās or riddles, on fol. 119b.
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ta'rīḫs or chronograms, on fol. 124b. The most prominent dates are the following ones: AH 829=AD 1426; AH 857 AD 1453, on the conquest of Constantinople; AH 886=AD 1481, on the death of Sulṭān Muḥammed II; AH 889=AD 1484; AH 913 AD 1507/1508, a ta'rīḫ by Necātī Beg; AH 914 =AD 1508/1509, on the death of the same; AH 918 AD 1512, on the accession of Sulṭān Selīm I; AH 926 AD 1520, on the death of the same Sulṭān, and also on Sulṭān Süleymān's accession, the latter a soliles by İsḥāk Çelebī, who died AH 943, 944, or 949=AD 1536-1538 or 1542, or 1543 (see Rieu, p. 176 sq.; H. Khalfa iii. p. 261, and E. J. W. Gibb, p. 193); AH 929=AD 1522, on the conquest of Rhodes; AH 934=AD 1527/1528, on the great earthquake, by Şan't; AH 936 AD 1529/1530; AH 940 = AD 1533/1534, on the death of Şeyḫ İbrāhīm, i. e. İbrāhīm Gülşenī, the great mystic Pīr (see Rieu, p. 175b, lin. penult. sq.); AH 942=AD 1535/1536, on İsḥāk Çelebī's appointment as ḳāḍī of Damascus, by himself; AH 951=AD 1544/1545; AH 952= AD 1545/1546, on Constantinople; AH 953=AD 1546/1547, on the death of Ẕātī (see above, No. 2135); AH 956=AD 1549, on Şehzāde Sulṭān Selīm (afterwards Selīm II); AH 960 AD 1553, on the death of Sulṭān Muṣṭafā, and also on the death of the poet Ḫayālī (correct date 964, see above); AH 961=AD 1554; AH 962= AD 1555, on the death of Sinān Paşa; AH 964 =AD 1557; and AH 966=AD 1558/1559.
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Ġazels, by Ẕātī ذاتی, forming a complete dīvān of this poetry, in alphabetical order. Beginning of the first ġazel, on fol. 129b: اول الف قد چورادر که اتمز تحمّل قاف آگا کورمدم آنگ کبی انصافسز انصاف اگا. On the margin of fol. 146b a ġazel by ʿUlvī Efendi (died AH 993 AD 1585, see H. Khalfa iii. p. 296, and Rieu, p. 211a); on that of fol. 147b a murabbaʿ and a ḳıṭʿa, and on that of fol. 148a a ġazel by Ḫayālī Beg.
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Without any systematic order, interspersed with some Persian verses, for instance by Jalāl al-dīn Rūmī, on ff. 6a and 9b, by Ḥāfiẓ of Shīrāz, on fol. 16a, etc. The first nine leaves contain upon the whole mere scribbling; ff. 10-14 are entirely blank; on fol. 15a the name of the original owner of this manuscript appears: Muḥammed bin Ḥüseyn aṭ-Ṭabbāḫ (the cook). On fol. 15b the main portion begins, containing chiefly specimens of poets in the reigns of Süleymān I and Selīm II, just as the preceding collection, which forms besides a kind of second half to the present one. The more prominent poets, represented here, are as follows: Ḳādirī (probably the one who died AH 940 AD 1533/1534, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, i. p. 280; other poets of that taḫalluṣ are mentioned, ib. ii. p. 506, iii. p. 31, etc.), on fol. 16a; Necātī Beg (see No. 2150), on ff. 17a and 86a; Āgāhī (died AH 985-AD 1577/1578, ib. iii. p. 12), on fol. 17b; Selāmī, on fol. 21b; Şemʿ (probably the same who died AH 936= AD 1529/1530, ib. ii. p. 15; another is the well-known commentator of Persian poetry who died in or after AH 1009 AD 1600, see above, No. 722, and Rieu, p. 154b), on fol. 21b; Muḥibbī (taḫalluṣ of Süleymān I, see E. J. W. Gibb, p. 186; another poet of that name died AH 1008 AD 1599/1600, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 107), on fol. 22a; Bāḳī (see No. 2144), on ff. 22, 55, 56, 57b, 67, 84a and b; Sürūrī (another great commentator of Persian poetry, died AH 969=AD 1562, see above, No. 721), on fol. 24b; Raḥmī (see No. 2150), on fol. 35a; Ḫayālī or Ḫayālī Beg (see ib.), on ff. 35b and 36a; Ḥasanbeg, on ff. 35b and 36a; ʿUbeydī (see No. 2150), on fol. 36b; Āẕurī (died AH 994 AD 1586, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 45, and Rieu, p. 184b), on fol. 41; the poem quoted here is a musaddas; other müseddesāt are found on ff. 41b sq., 47a sq., and 52b sq.; Naṣūḥ Efendi (i. e. Yaḥyā bin Pīr ʿAlī bin Naṣūḥ, the author of the encyclopaedias نتائج الفنون ومحاسن المتون who was born AH 940 AD 1533/1534, and died AH 1007 AD 1598/1599, see Rieu, p. 114; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 95; G. Flügel i. p. 44 sq.; Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 108, etc.), on ff. 49, 84b, and 86a; Maḳālī (died AH 997 AD 1589, see Rieu, p. 244; Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 56; another poet of the same name died AH 992= AD 1584, ib. iii. p. 47), on fol. 49b; Derūnī (one died AH 950 AD 1543/1544, another AH 966=AD 1559, ib. ii. pp. 235 and 282), on fol. 49b; Remzī (one died AH 956=AD 1549, another AH 973=AD 1565/1566, ib. ii. pp. 257 and 327), on fol. 49b; Ḫüdā Beg or Ḫüdā'ī Çelebī (died AH 991=AD 1583, ib. iii. p. 43), on ff. 49b and 84a; Mesīḥī (see No. 2150), on ff. 49b, 86b, and 87b; Ḥayretī or Ḥayretī Beg (No. 2150), on ff. 55b and 71b sq.; Fiġānī (died AH 933 AD 1527, ib. ii. p. 18, and E. J. W. Gibb, p. 188), on fol. 55b; Fużūlī (see No. 2133), on fol. 56a; Kemālpaşazāde (Şemsüddīn Aḥmed bin Süleymān bin Kemāl Paşa, died AH 940 AD 1533/1534, see Rieu, p. 141b sq., not 941, as is wrongly stated by others, see E. J. W. Gibb, p. 191, and Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 205), on ff. 56a and 798 sq. (in the latter case the poet is called Kemāl Paşa, which -- if not a mere oversight -- would denote his grandfather); ʿİşretī (contemporary with Süleymān I, ib. ii. p. 468), on fol. 66b; Revānī (died AH 930=AD 1524, ib. i. p. 187), on fol. 66b; ʿUlvī or ʿUlvī Efendi (see No. 2150), on ff. 66b and 86b; ʿİyānī, on fol. 66b; Nāzukī (a poet of this name flourished about AH 1042-1049=AD 1632-1640, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 23 and 24), on fol. 67a; ʿIlmī (some poets of that name are mentioned in Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. pp. 471 and 472), on fol. 67a; Yaḥyā or Yaḥyā Beg (see Nos. 2136-2143), on ff. 84 and 87b; Ṭāliʿī (under Sulṭān Selīm I), on fol. 84; İsḥāk (probably İsḥāk Çelebī, see No. 2150), on fol. 84b; Naṣūḥī, on fol. 84b; Vālihī (see No. 2150), on fol. 86a; Mecdī (Muḥammed Çelebī, died AH 999 AD 1591. see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. P. 74), on fol. 86a; Esīrī, on fol. 86; Mis̠ālī (Ḥasan Çelebī, died AH 1010=AD 1601/1602, ib. iii. p. 127), on fol. 86b; Ḳabūl (Ḳabūlī Ḳadūsī or Ḳabūlī Dervīş, died AH 1000=AD 1592, see H. Khalfa iii. p. 301, and Rieu, p. 184b sq.), on fol. 86b; Ḥāletī (probably the one who died AH 974 AD 1566/1567, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 330; another better known poet of the same taḫalluṣ is Dervīş Ḥāletī, who died AH 1012 AD 1603/1604, ib. iii. p. 129; H. Khalfa iii. p. 274, and Rieu, p. 189; a third ʿAzmīzāde Ḥāletī, who died AH 1040=AD 1630/1631, Rieu, ib. and p. 186a), on fol. 86b; and Seyfī, on fol. 87a.
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Previously owned by one Muḥammed bin Ḥüseyn aṭ-Ṭabbāḫ محمد بن حسین الطباخ
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