This volume contains the collected poetry of Nabi. In a versified prologue to the gazeller, Nabi states that a collection of his poems made by some learned man (who is not named) in Istanbul had become incomplete, given the number of poem he had composed since its compilation, and that Silahdar İbrahim Paşa, Treasurer of the Sultan, after his arrival at Halep (Aleppo), took upon himself the trouble to compile a new collection, assigning to each poem its proper place. This must have taken place a few years before Nabi's death, for the Divan includes a chronogram for the birth of Şehzade Sultan İsa, a son of Ahmet III, born in 1117 AH (1705-06 CE). The contents of this Divan are: kasideler, including the same prologue as Or 407, but with fewer pieces than this other manuscript, and in a different order (ff 1v-30r); chronograms and mesneviler (ff 30r-34v); gazeller, with the same beginning as Or 407 (ff 34v-111r); and kıt'alar, rubaiyat and a muhammes (ff 111r-115v). The manuscript was completed on 22 Recep 1177 AH (26 January 1764 CE).
Divan-i Nabi - ديوان نابى
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- Reference
- GB 59 Add MS 7920
- Dates of Creation
- 1177
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 1 text 115 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 115 ff. Dimensions : 210 mm x 133 mm. Ruling : Red-ruled margins. Script : Nesih.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from the collection of Claudius Rich.
Bibliography
The final poems of the work have been published in translation in Gibb, Ottoman poems, p. 113.