Nataik-i mükatebat-i Hazret-i Pir Sezai - نطائق مكتبات حضرت پیر سزائى

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 11060
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1264
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 91 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 91 ff. Dimensions : 255 mm x 154 mm. Script : Talik with some cursive characteristics.

Scope and Content

This volume contains letters of a mystical character by Sezai Hasan Efendi (died 1151 AH/1738-39 CE). The letters, which are subdivided iwth headings Sername-i mektup, Dibaçe-i ahir, and Hamiş-i Kitap, are addressed to the following individuals:. his son Sadık Efendi (ff 2r-v);. the Çelebi Efendi (f 4r);. Şems Efendi, son of Halil Efendi (f 4r);. Hafız Mustafa Efendi (f 4v-19v);. Şeyh el-Seyit Osman Efendi (ff 19v-20v);. Şeyh Ahmet Müslim (ff 20v-25v);. Şeyh Abdullah Efendi (ff 25v-26v);. Gördüsi İbrahim Efendi (ff 26v-32v);. Derviş Yusuf (ff 33r-41v);. Molla Efendi, son of Abdullah Efendi (ff 41v-42r);. Mehmet Sadık Efendi, son of Abdullah Efendi (ff 42r-47r);. Küçük Çelebizade, İsmail Asım Efendi (ff 47r-v);. Ak Mahmudzade Efendi (ff 47v-48r);. Hayatizade Efendi (ff 48r-v);. Neyli Efendi (ff 48v-49r);. Raşit Efendi (ff 49v-50r);. Seyit Vehbi (ff 51r-v);. Hekimbaşı Nuh Efendizade Yusuf Efendi (f 50v);. Vehbi Efendi (ff 51r-v);. Müslimzade Efendi (ff 51v-52v);. Hasan Efendizade Senai Efendi (f 52v);. İzzet Ali Bey (f 53r);. Yeğen Mehmet Paşa (f 53r);. Başmühasebeci Seyfullah Efendi (f 53v);. Büyük Tezkerecizade Rahmi Bey (f 54r);. Haşim Efendi (55r);. Sipahi Mehmedi (ff 56r-70v);. Süleyman Efendi (f 70v);. Muhtarizade Derviş Ahmet (f 71v);. Hatvanizade Efendi, the Kazasker (f 72r);. İbrahim, the Kazasker (f 72v);. Filibeli Mehmet Efendi (f 73v);. Tatar Hasan Ağa (f 74r);. Mustafa Ağa (f 74r);. Hüseyin Ağa (f 74v);. Mahmud Ağa (f 76r);. el-Hacc Molla Efendi (f 76v);. Şeyh Süleyman (ff 79r-84v);. Şeyh Ahmet (ff 84v-85v);. Şeyh Mehmet (ff 75v-86v);. a Hatt-i Hümayun sent by Ahmet III to Mısri Efendi and the latter's reply (f 86v);. a letter from Mısri to his brothers (f 87v);. and a letter from Mısri to the Grand Vezir Ahmet Paşa (f 88v). This manuscript was copied by Seyit Celaleddin nakşbendi muhacir-i Anabolu in 1264 AH (1847-48 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1929.

Related Material

The Divan of Sezai can be found at Or 7106 and Or 7199. For more information on Sezai, see OM I, p. 84.

Bibliography

The letters of Sezai were published in İstanbul: Hasan Sezai, Mektubat-i Hazret-i Sezai (İstanbul: Matbaa-i Amire, 1289 [1872-73]).