[Divan-i Tecelli] - [ديوان تجلى]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7213
  • Dates of Creation
    • 17th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 57 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 57 ff. Dimensions : 231 mm x 131 mm. Script : Nastaliq.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the collected poetry of Tecelli, a poet who died in 1100 AH (1688-89 CE). It starts with a versified preface, followed by the Besmele, a bahariye (f 2r), various na't (ff 3r-8r) and poems in praise of various places. The gazeller then appear (ff 11v-37r) and are followed by chronograms (ff 37v-40r) and a kıt'a. There are further gazeller (ff 40r-56r) written using words which do not require diacritical pointing, followed by various dubeyitler and matali (ff 56v-57v). The date 1040 AH (1630-31 CE) that has been written in figures after the last matla is, although not a chronogram, unlikely to be the date of transcription unless we accept as correct an outlier estimation of Tecelli's death of 1069 AH (1658-59 CE) as given in SO II, p. 48. All of the verses attributed to the Tecelli who died in 1100 AH (1688-89 CE) found in various tezkereler are found in the current volume. The text contains a single unvan. The manuscript appears to have been copied in the 17th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

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

Related Material

For biographical information on Tecelli, please see OM II, p. 116; Salim, pp. 187-89; Safai, Esad Efendi 2549, f. 41; GOD III, p. 551; and Esma'ü'l-Müellifin I, p. 364.