This volume contains the Hayriname, a poem containing moral precepts and rules of life by Yusuf Nabi. It is addressed to the son of the poet, Ebü'l-hayr Mehmet Çelebi, who, it appears from the prologue, was born in his father's fifty-fourth year and was eight years old at the time of composition. In the same passage, Nabi, after praising his son's birthplace Roha (possibly Urfa, Turkey), says that, after spending thirty years of his life in official duties, partly in Edirne and partly in Istanbul, he had given up worldly pursuits and retired to a secluded life in the congenial climate of Halep (Aleppo), where he was writing the preset work. The manuscript was completed at the beginning of Rebiülahir 1116 AH (August 1704 CE).
Hayriname - خيرى نامه
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Add MS 5985
- Dates of Creation
- 1116
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 1 text 46 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 46 ff. Dimensions : 216 mm x 114 mm. Script : Nastaliq.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from the collection of Hilgrove Turner.
Other Finding Aids
See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 201.
Bibliography
Translated sections of the poem can be found in the following published works: Yusuf Nabi, Conseils de Nabi Efendi à son fils Aboul Khair, translator Pavet de Courteille (Paris: Imprimérie impériale, 1857); GOD IV, pp. 52-61.