Kitab-i Sohbetü'l-Ebkar -كتاب صحبت الابكار

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7080
  • Dates of Creation
    • Early 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 86 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 86 ff. Dimensions : 201 mm x 120 mm. Script : Nestalik.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a moral mesnevi forming one of the Hamse of Nevizade Atayı (died 1045 AH/1635-36 CE). The poem is divided into 40 sections liked the Ṣubḥat al-abrār of Jāmī. The first of the beginning lines of the poem are used as the title of the copy. A chronogram in the last line of the poem gives the date as 1035 AH (1625-26 CE). The manuscript was likely copied in the first half of the 18th century CE.

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Related Material

For other copies of this text, see Or 6297 text 1, Or 7235 text 3, Or 13348 text I, and Or 13882 text 3. For more information on the author and the text, see EI, pp. 732-33; THK, p. 132; OM III, p. 95; HOP III, p. 232.