MS. Thurston 30 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contains ġazels, murabbaʿāt, ḳıṭʿas, rübāʿīs, fards, short mes̠nevīs, etc. The most prominent poets, represented by specimens in this collection, which very much resembles in character the immediately preceding ones, are: Gülşenī (İbrāhīm Gülşenī, died AH 940 AD 1533/1534, see No. 2150 above), Cennābī (probably Seyyid Muṣṭafā or Muṣṭafā Efendi bin Ḥasan, the ḳāḍī of Mecca and Aleppo, and author of the تاريخ الجنابي who died AH 999=AD 1590/1591, see G. Flügel ii. p. 85 sq.; Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 74; a Cenābī Paşa died thirty years before, AH 969= AD 1561/1562, ib. ii. p. 286), ʿIşḳī, Naṣūḥī, Ḥamdī (see Nos. 2127-2131), ʿUbeydī, Farruḫī (flourished under Sulṭān Süleymān I, see Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, ii. p. 489), Bāḳī, Ḥāletī, Nevā'ī, etc. There are besides on fol. 48a sq. long extracts from the باب الافراط في العشق , and a great number of تورکی or popular songs.

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