[Külliyat-i Nabi] - [كليات نابى]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7159
  • Dates of Creation
    • Late 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 7 texts 284 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 284 ff. Dimensions : 214 mm x 116 mm. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the works of Nabi (died 1124 AH/1712-13 CE) divided into the following sections :. ff 1v-55v : Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn, an account of the author's journey to Makkah and Madinah in mixed prose and verse, written in 1093 AH (1682 CE), which is incorrectly interpreted from the chronogram at the end as 1090 AH;. ff 56v-96v : Hayriye or Hayriname, a didactic mesnevi written for the instruction of the author's son, Ebü'l Hayr;. ff 97v-148v : Hayrabad, a similar mesnevi, with a romantic element, completed in 1117 AH (1705-06 CE), according to a chronogram at the end of the work;. ff 149v-272v : The Divan, subdivided as follows: kasideler (ff 149v-158r); mesneviler and tahmisat (ff 159v-175r); gazeller (ff 175v-259v); rubaiyat (ff 260r-272v);. ff 273r-280r : Two letters, one written to Mühür-ken Muses (?) of Erzrum, and the other to İç-ağası Mahmud, followed by a few more gazeller by Nabi, dated 1180 AH (1766-67 CE) and 1195 AH (1780-81 CE). The text contains one unvan. The manuscript was likely copied in the late 18th century.

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Related Material

Other copies of various texts included in this volume can be found as follows:. Text I : Or 34 text I; Or 7164; Or 16276; Or 16283; Add MS 7853; and Add MS 7904 text VIII. Text II : Or 3290 text I; Or 7158 text I; Or 7075; Or 7165; Add MS 5985; and Add MS 7904 text I. Text III : Or 7158, text 2. Text IV : Or 407, Or 1161, Or 7158 texts 4-6, Or 7162, Or 7163, Or 10953 text I, Or 12481, and Add MS 7920. For more information about text 1, please see GO, pp. 237-39; OM II, p. 448; Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 201; HOP II, p. 332; Karatay II, p. 174; and Rossi, p. 171.