Türkische Verse aus Werken des Sŭltan Veled und des Ǧelāleddīn Rūmī

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 14564
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1935-1945
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • German Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 32 ff Material: Laid paper. Foliation: European, 32 ff, plus 2 blank but for Taeschner's foliation. Dimensions: 330 x 208 mm. Pricking and Ruling: 17-25 lines, written on rectos only. Script: Partly in Gothic hand. Watermark: Watermarked with Nazi eagle symbol and the legend REICHSADLER. Binding: Bound in the original card wrappers.

Scope and Content

This volume contains verses in Old Anatolian Turkish selected from the poetic works of Sultan Veled (623-712 AH/1226-1312 CE) and his father Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (604-672 AH/1207-1273 CE). The verses are transcribed and edited with notes and apparatus criticus in German by the German orientalist and Islamicist Franz Taeschner (1896-1967 CE). There does not appear to be another copy of this work. The contents of the work include: Verses from the Divan of Sultan Veled (ff 3r-18r); Verses from the İbtidaname of Sultan Veled (19r-28r); Verses from the Divan-ı kebir of Celaleddin-i Rumi (29r-32r). Verse begins (f 3r): 1) Baqma bana baqma bana bŭ göz-ilä bŭ göz-ilä * Ǧān gözini gär acasin, sän nola sän nola. Though undated, the work was probably authored between 1935 and 1945 CE.

Access Information

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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.

Bibliography

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