[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]

This volume contains a collection of poetry by various authors who lived in the first half of the 11th century AH (late 16th-early 17th centuries CE), to which is prefixed a table of contents under the heading Fihrist-i ma fi haza el-mecmua. It contains the following works:. (I) ff 8v-42v : Rubaiyat of Azmizade Haleti Efendi in alphabetical order, with the heading Rubaiyat Fazıl-i celili el-asar-i Azmizade Haleti Efendi ;. (II) ff 43v-64v : Sakiname by Riyazi Efendi with the heading Sakiname-yi belağat-i nizam-i merhum Riyazi Efendi. Riyazi (Mehmet İbn-i Mustafa Asam), the biographer of poets, was born in 980 AH (1572-73 AH), followed a legal career, and then died in 1054 AH (1644-45 CE);. (III) ff 65v-92v : Leyla u Mecnun, a mesnevi by Kafzade Faizi under the heading Leyla-yi Mecnun-i merhum Kafzade Faizi Efendi. Faizi, the author of the well-known anthology Zübdetü'l-eşar, began his career as a müderris and became in 1026 AH (1617 CE) Kadı of Salonika (Thessaloniki, Greece). The work Leyla Mecnun, not noticed by most authors who write about Kafzade, appears to have been left unfinished. The present fragment consists of little more than a prologue, which contains a panegyric on Osman II (1026-31 AH/1617-22 CE) as the reigning Sultan. The narrative, which begins on f 86r, comes to an abrupt end on f 92r. The prologue concludes with a Sakiname of upwards of 160 ebyat (ff 82r-86r). This piece is mentioned in the table of contents prefixed to a collection of Sakinameler (Add MS 7925) as part of the Leyla u Mecnun of Kafzade Faizi;. (IV) ff 93v-96v : Sakiname by Sabuhi, who is called Sabuhi Dede in the table of contents. He was Şeyh of a Mevlevi tarikat in İstanbul and died in 1057 AH (1647-48 CE);. (V) ff 97v-133v : Divan-i Seyit Sabri Çelebi, the collected poetry of Sabri (Mehmet Çelebi), called İlmizade. He was Mulazim to the Mufti Yahya Efendi, and afterwards a Kadı. He died in 1055 AH (1645-46 CE). The Divan contains: kasideler in praise of Sultan Murat IV, Mehmed Geray Han (II?), Müftü Ebüsait (1053-65 AH/1643-54 CE), Müftü Ahizade Hüseyin Efendi (1041-43 AH/1631-34 CE), Müftü Yahya Efendi (died 1053 AH/1643-44 CE), and the poet Ali Rezai Efendi (ff 97v-107v); gazeller in alphabetical order (ff 108r-131r); mukattaat with chronograms for 1035 AH (1625-26 CE) and 1037 AH (1627-28 CE); and müfredat (f 131v); and müfredat (ff 132r-133v);. (VI) ff 136v-178v : Gülşen-i Niyaz, by Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi İbn-i Husamuddin, a mesnevi composed at the time of the poet's banishment to Cyprus, with the heading Kitab-i Gülşen-i Niyaz li-Şeyh-ül-İslam ve Müftü el-enam Abdülaziz Efendi el-şehir bi-Karaçelebizade. Abdülaziz İbn-i Husamuddin, also known as Karaçelebizade, and, in poetry, Azizi, is the author of the history called Ravzatu'l-ebrar, and dedicated (1058 AH/1648-49 CE) to Sultan İbrahim. He was appointed in 1036 AH (1626-27 CE) to the post of Kadı of Makkah, and in 1043 AH (1633-34 CE) to the same office in İstanbul. A dearth of butter, which occurred in the capital in 1044 AH (1634-35 CE) and was imputed to him, so incensed Sultan Murat IV that he ordered him to be drowned in the sea. A counter-order obtained by Bayram Paşa and commuting his sentence to banishment to Cyprus, arrived just in time to save his life. The present poem contains the author's apology and his appeal to the Sultan. Abdülaziz was recalled in 1045 AH (1635-36 CE) and rose successively to the posts of Kazasker and Müftü (1061 AH/1650-51 CE), before his death in 1068 AH (1657-58 CE). The folios of this work are partially discoloured by damp. This manuscript was copied by Ebu Bekir İbn-i Ahmet Şagirt Mevkufat and completed on 22 Şaban 1088 AH (20 October 1677 CE) in İstanbul.

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Acquired from the Collections of Alexandre Jaba.

Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 189-191.

For another Sakiname by Riyazi see Or 1156 text I, and Add MS 7925 text V. For other works by Riyazi see Or 7066 (Riyazu'ş-şuara), Or 7067 (Riyazu'ş-şuara), Or 7468 (Düstur el-amel), and Or 13051 (Tezkire-yi Riyazi).. For another copy of Faizi's Leyla u Mecnun, see Or 11161. For Divanlar by Faizi, see Or 1156 text II, and Or 9759 text I. For another, sparser Divan by Seyit Sabri Çelebi, see Add MS 7930 text III. For more information on Haleti's rubaiyat, see Hulasatu'l-eser, f 431r; and Haj. Khal. III, p. 274, where they are listed under Divanu'r-rubaiyat.. For more information on Riyazi, see Osmanlische Dichtkunst III, p. 367; Haj. Khal. II, p. 262; Haj. Khal. III, 282, 572; and Vienna Catalogue, I, p. 660. For more information on Faizi, see Hulasatu'l-eser, f 453 (where Faizi is said to have died in 1032 AH/1622-23 CE); Haj. Khal III, p. 300 (where his death is given as 1031 AH/1621-22 CE); and Flügel, Vienna Catalogue I, No 699. In Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, p. 151, Hammer has confounded Kafzade Faizi, the author of the Zübdetü'l-eşar, with his father Feyzullah, Kazasker of Rumeli, whose tahallus was Feyzi and who died in 1020 AH (1611-12 CE). See Hulasatü'l-eser, f 96 and Fezleke, I p. 341 for more on the father. This particular work is mentioned in a table of contents prefixed to a mecmua of Sakinameler (Add MS 7925) as part of the Leyla u Mecnun of Kafzade Faizi. For more information on Sabuhi Dede, see Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, p. 393. For more information on Sabir Mehmet Çelebi, see Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, p. 369; and Haj. Khal. III, p. 290. For a Divan by Ali Rezai (text V), see Add MS 7933 text IV. For more information on Abdülaziz İbn-i Husamuddin, see Geschichte des Osmanlichen Reiches IX, p. 187; Vienna Catalogue II, p. 96; Naima I, p. 577; Geschichte der Osmanlichen Dichtkunst III, p. 426; Hulasatu'l-eser, f 496; and Wüstenfed, die Gelerten-Familie Muhibbi, p. 48.