[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7198
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 3 texts 129 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 129 ff. Dimensions : 194 mm x 138 mm. Script : Nesih, rık'a, nastaliq. Ink : Mainly black, red and green ink used for headers in text 2.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following texts :. ff 7v-47r : A poetical miscellany beginning with a short poem called Tevhid-i Bari. This is followed by a na't and poems, primarily tarifler on various subjects by Veysi (f 7v); Ebussuud Efendi (ff 9v, 18r, 30v); a tahmis by Mehmet on a kaside of Agehi (f 12r); Figanname of Erzurumlu Fehim (f 13v); a fahriye of Mehmet Edip İbn-i Celil Nasibi el-Edirnevi (f 14r); Ruhi (ff 15r, 25v); Latifi (f 16r); Nef'i (f 18r); Heyli (f 20r); a mersiye of Ali (f 21r); a mi'raciye by Nadiri (f 21v); Rüşdi Paşa (f 23r); Ulvi (f 24r); Fuzuli (f 24v); Zati (f 25r); Cevri (f 26v); Jami (f 26r); Füzuni (f 27r); extracts from the Gül-i sad berk of Yahya Bey (ff 28v-29r); and other poems by various hands. The text was copied in various hands in three columns. The poems which follow the last of the items mentioned above are mostly by Baki and Nabi but include gazeller by Hafız Paşa, Meyli, Nef'i, Şemseddin, Asım, Hayali, Feyzi, Yahya, Vahit, Arif Efendi, and Faik. A few of the poems are in Arabic (f 24r) and Persian (f 26r);. ff 47v-78r : The Divan-i Ragıp Paşa (died 1176 AH/1762-63 CE), consisting entirely of gazeller arranged alphabetically. The headings of this section are in red and green ink;. ff 79r-104v : Divan-i Servet, the collected poetry of Enderuni Osman Servet Efendi, who died at Maraş in 1280 AH (1863-64 CE). The poems are all gazeller arranged alphabetically. This text was copied in the same hand as the preceding one and is followed by some gazeller of Baki (ff 104v-108v) and a letter (ff 109v-124r) in a hand including to rık'a entitled Meleviyetle İzmire teşriflerinde merahil-i tariki ve beldeye-yi merkumeye vusullerini mübeyyin Sılahdar-ı Şehriyari el-Seyyit Abdullah Ağa hazretlerine tahrir buyurdukları mektuptur. . The remainder of the manuscript is taken up by folios, mostly blank, one of which bears a note giving the date 1218 AH (1803-04 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

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

Related Material

For other collections of poetry by Mehmet Ragıp Paşa please see Or 6248, Or 7182, Or 8008, Or 9472, Or 10952, Or 12185, and Or 14242. For more information on the poet Ragıp Paşa see OM II, p. 190; Gibb, IV, p. 92; Rossi, p. 205.

Bibliography

Mehmet Ragıp, Divan-i Ragıp (Bulaq: Bulak Matbaası, 1253 [1837]).