[Vilayetname] - [ولايتنامه]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12492
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1311
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 145 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 145 ff. Dimensions : 240 mm x 170 mm. Ruling : Red-ruled margins, 20 lines. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a metrical account of the life and miracles of Hacı Bektaş with a short account of his successors, by a poet named Nihani. Gölpınarlı claims that the work was written at the order of Feyzullah Çelebi. As he died in 1288 AH (1871-72 CE), and the chronogram at the end of Nihani's work gives the date of composition as 1296 AH (1878-79 CE), the poem must have been written posthumously. The first folio of this text is missing. This manuscript was copied by İbrahim İbn-i Ali İbn-i İbrahim İbn-i İsmail İbn-i Abdurrahman sakin-i İncirli in 1311 AH (1893-94 CE).

Access Information

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Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1960.

Related Material

Another copy of the Vilayetname can be found at Or 12494. For more information on Hacı Bektaş and this text, see Gölpınarlı, Abdülbaki, Manakıb-ı Hacı Bektâş-ı Velî 'Vilâyet-nâme' (İstanbul : İnkilâp, 1958), p. xxxiv.