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This codex contains the following texts :. ff 4v-55v : Divan-i Sirri, the collected poetry of Sirri (İbrahim Efendi) of Üsküdar. He was the Defterdar of Crete and died 1110 AH (1698-99 CE). He is the third of the poets mentioned under that name by Hammer in GOD. The contents of this pieces are: kasideler arranged without a discernable system, addressed to Sultan Mehmet IV, Grand Vezir Köprülüzade Ahmet Paşa (1072-87 AH/1661-76 CE), Grand Vezir Kara Mustafa (1087-95 AH/1676-84 CE), Grand Vezir Mustafa Paşa (1104-05 AH/1692-94 CE), Grand Vezir Ali Paşa (1105-06 AH/1693-1695 CE), Grand Vezir Amucezade Hüseyin Paşa (1109-10 AH/1697-99 CE), and to some other dignitaries of the same period, including the Şeyh ul-İslam Feyzullah Efendi, the Kapudan Paşa Musahip Mustafa, and the Reis ul-Kuttab Rami Efendi. At the end are some chronograms relating to the appointment of Grand Vezir Kara Mustafa, to the accession of Sultan Süleyman II, to a feat of archery performed by Sultan Mehmet IV, and other events (ff 4v-25v); gazeller in alphabetical order (ff 25v-45r); a few kıt'alar and ferdiyat (ff 45r-46r); a mesnevi, the story of a Sipahi called Halil who inherited vast wealth and became a Mevlevi (ff 46r-55v);. ff 56-90r : the Hayriname, by Nabi. Some French glosses found throughout this text are likely due to Ventura de Paradis, the first interpreter at the French Embassy in Istanbul and one of the former owners of the manuscript;. ff 90v-111r : Divan-i Hevai, the collected poetry of Hevai, a preacher in Bursa, his native city, who wrote commentaries upon the Bustan and the Gulistan. He died in 1017 AH (1608-09 CE), as stated in a marginal addition in Kınalızade (Or 35, f 364v) as well as Haj. Khal II, p. 52, although Hammer claims that he died in 995 AH (1586-87 CE). The Divan consists mainly of gazeller in alphabetical order, with a few muhammesat, rubaiyat and kıt'alar at the end. The text contains four unvans. The manuscript was completed on 29 Cemaziulahir 1133 AH (27 April 1721 CE).

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See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 199-200.

Other copies of text 2 can be found in Or 7158 text 1; Or 7159 text 2; Or 7075; Or 7165; Add MS 5985; and Add MS 7904 text I. For more information on the author of text 2 see GOD III, p. 581. For more information on text 3, see GOD III, p. 141. For more information on its author, see Or 35, f 364; Haj. Khal. II, p. 52.