Die Türkischen Verse aus Sŭlṭān Veled's Rebābnāme

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 14565
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1935-45
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • German Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 20 ff Material: Laid paper. Foliation: European, 20 ff. Dimensions: 323 x 208 mm. Pricking and Ruling: 16-20 lines, written on rectos only. Script: Partly in Gothic hand. Watermarks: Watermarked with Nazi eagle symbol and the legend REICHSADLER. Binding: Bound in the original card wrappers.

Scope and Content

This volume contains Old Anatalian and Eastern Turkish verses, in transcription, from Rabābnāmah, the Sufi didactic mesnevi poem in Persian by Sultan Veled (623-712 AH/1226-1312 CE). The latter was the son of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (604-672 AH/1207-1273 CE) and himself a spiritual master. The verses have been transcribed and edited with notes in German and apparatus criticus by the German orientalist and Islamicist Franz Taeschner (1896-1967 CE). The brief preface mainly comprises bibliographical references. Folio 20, which has been tipped in, contains notes on some Ottoman Turkish words in a Vienna manuscript (Cod. Vindobonensis). There does not appear to be another copy of this work. Text begins: 1. Mäwlana-dür äwliyā qüṭbi bilün * Nä kim ol buyurdi-sa ani qilŭn. Though undated, the text was probably written between 1935 and 1945 CE.

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Acquisition Information

Found in the department in July 1990.

Related Material

On Sultan Veled generally see M. I. Waley, 'BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN SOLṬĀN WALAD,' Encyclopaedia Iranica (iranicaonline.org/articles/baha-al-din-soltan-walad). On Mevlana Rumi, see H. Ritter an A. Bausani, 'D̲j̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī,' EI2 (doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0177). For Sultan Veled's (Persian) Ibtidānāmah, Rabābnāmah, and Intihānāmah, see Or 8200. For works by Mevlana Rumi, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, 584-593, 344-39 and Supplement to the catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, 162-164. For works by Sultan Veled, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, 345, 585, 1085. For bibliographical references, see the description of Or 14564.

Bibliography

M. Mansuroğlu, M., Sultan Veled'in Türkçe Manzumeleri (İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi, 1958)