Gazeliyat-i Sabit Efendi ve Divan-i Sami Efendi - غزليات ثابت افندى و ديوان سامى افندى

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7195
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 2 texts 90 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 90 ff. Dimensions : 212 mm x 182 mm. Script : Nastaliq.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following two collections of poetry:. ff 1v-48v : The gazeller of Sabit (Alaeddin), who died in 1124 AH (1712-13 CE);. ff 49r-83v : Divan-i Sami, the collected poems of Mustafa Sami Arpaeminizade (died 1146 AH/1733-34 CE). This divan starts with kıt'alar followed by gazeller ending on f 77v. Then come kasideler (ff 76r-80r); a chronogram giving the date of Sami's death (f 80r); rubaiyat (ff 80r-81r); müfredat (ff 81r-v); two gazeller (ff 81v-82r); and a letter by Sami (who gives his own name as Mustafa Sami Emir, Emir-ahor-i sabik) (ff 83r-v). The remaining folios of this manuscript (ff 84v-90r) bear poems by Nakşi (probably İbrahim Nakşi, died 1114 AH/1702-03 CE) beginning with a gazel. After three blank folios come kasideler, further gazeller, and a long kaside. A terciibent and other poems have been written in the margin. The manuscript is not dated, but was likely copied in the 18th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Bequeathed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Related Material

Other copies of text 1 can be found at Add MS 7928, Or 1160, Or 7192, Or 7193, Or 10883, and Or 12578. Another copy of text 2 can be found at Or 7194. Sami Efendi's Munşeat can be found at Or 12735. For more information on the author of text 1, see OM II, p. 118; Salim, p. 190; and HOP IV, p. 14. For more information on the author of text 2, please see OM II, p. 232; Salim, p. 331; Fatin, p. 181; HOP IV, p. 58; GO, pp. 270-71; and Kutlar, Fatma Sabiha, 'Mustafa Sâmi Bey: Osmanlı vak'anüvisi, şair,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 12 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mustafa-sami-bey. For more information on Nakşi please see Salim, p. 682.