This volume contains poems in the Turkmen dialect, mostly by the famous poet Maghtymguly Pyragy, who was born around 1730 CE. The first poem begins:. بر كيجه ياتورديم تونينك يارينده. بو تورت اطلى كلدى تورغين تيديلار. Some of the ghazals bear titles taken from words which occur in the text of the poems in question. On f 98r there is a muhammes. Other poems in this copy are by Daulatyar Beg (f 102v; ff 125r-v); Sayyidi (f 103r); Zalili (f 105r); Bende Murad (ff 105v-114r); and Shahbende (ff 112r-113v). One emendation contains the proper name Tina Negan''chik'' (Тина Неганьчикъ). Folio 55r should come after f 52v. Both these folios have been crossed out with a red pencil. There is a lacuna after f 54v. This manuscript was probably copied in the late 18th or early 19th century CE.
Divan-i Makhtum Quli -- دیوان مختوم قولی
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or 11414
- Dates of Creation
- Late 18th century - early 19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 1 Codex 140 ff Materials : Paper. Dimensions : 221 x 174 mm. Foliation : European, 140 ff. Pricking and ruling : Black and occasional red outlines for text boxes. Script : Nestalik. Ink : Black ink throughout, with occasional emendations in red pencil. Binding : British Museum.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased by the British Museum from M. E. Denissoff (Ilya Denisov) on 10 February 1934.
Bibliography
For published selections, see Saylanan goşgylar (Aşgabat, 1940); Saylanan eserler (2 volumes; Aşgabat, 1959); Saylanan şi''rlar (in Arabic characters, Baku 1960); and Mākhdūmqūlī Dīvānı ed. Fānī (Istanbul 1340/1921-22), which reproduces many of the errors in Vámbéry''s text in ZDMG 33 (1879), pp. 387-444.