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This volume contains a small anthology in which the works of three poets are represented. The first poet's name is not given, but their poem (f 1r) in the remel metre starts the work. The other poems, which are halk şiiri (folk literature) of an indifferent characer, have been set down at random in two contemporary hands on a series of sheets bound together later, some of which had already been lost prior to binding. The first named poet is Ahmet Rızvan who, according to Kınalızade, died in the time of Süleyman I. In the introduction to his first mesnevi, Rızvan mentions that he had previously written an İskendername and Leyla ve Mecnun. Poems by Rızvan appear on ff 1v-3v and 6r-7v. There is a signature of Ahmet Rızvan on f 7r, but it is unlikely that this is genuine. It is more likely that it was copied from some older manuscript, which is further reinforced by the archaic orthography. The other poet is the well-known Aşık Ömer (died 1119 AH/1707 CE). The first of his poems, many of which are türküler, occurs on f 15v. The poems run onto the preceding folio. There is another poet, with no mahlas, who was perhaps the compiler of this beyaz. Their work begins on f 18r. The verses of the two named poets have been copied while preserving a more archaic orthography that is also more phonetic. It is difficult to estimate the age of the manuscript, but it is not likely to have been copied prior to the 17th century.

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

For more information on Rızvan, see Kınalızade's tezkere, Or 7062, f 43r. Copies of the poet's Hüsrev ü Şirin, composed in 907 AH (1501 CE), are recorded in Pertsch, Berlin, p. 378; and in Gotha, p. 73. For more information on Aşık Ömer, see Ergun, Sadettin Nüzhet, Aşık Ömer Hayatı ve Eserleri (İstanbul: Semih Lütfi Matbaası ve Kitabevi, 1963).