Tezkire-yi eş-şuara - تذكرۀ الشعراء.

This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets, with copious poetical quotations, compiled by Hasan İbn-i Ali İbn-i Emrullah, commonly known as Kınalızade. Hasan Çelebi was born in 953 AH (1546-47 CE) in Bursa, where his father, Ali Çelebi Kınalızade, filled the office of Müderris. After an active career as professor and judge, he died as Kadı of Rosetta (Rashīd, Egypt) in 1012 AH (1603-04 CE). The current work, described by Haj. Khal. as the best of Ottoman Turkish tezkireler, contains notices of upwards of 600 poets. Its long and wordy preface, includes a panegyric on the reigning Sultan Murad III, and a dedication to Hoca Efendi, i.e. the Sultan's preceptor and celebrated history Saaduddin, together with an elaborate notice of his life. The work is divided into three books, fusul, the first two of which treat severally of the Sultans of the Ottoman dynasty and of the princes of the same house, while the third, which forms the bulk of the volume, contains notices of the ulema and poets in alphabetical order. The longest of these is devoted to the author's father, Ali Çelebi. At the end is found the statement that the work was completed in 994 AH (1585-86 CE). It includes, in fact, dates as late as 993 AH (1585 CE), for instance the death of Azeri. The present copy was completed by Derviş Mehmet in Cemaziülevvel 1015 AH (September 1606 CE).

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Acquired from the collection of Samuel Lee.

See Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 77-78.

Other copies of the same text can be found at Or 35, Or 7062, Or 13858, and Add MS 24597. For more information about the author of the text, please see Haj. Khal, Fezleke, Vol I, p. 240; Hulasatu'l-eser, Vol. 1, f 283; and GOD I, p. 44, No. 5; GOD III, p. 131; II p. 341; and Geschichte der Osmanlisches Reiches, Vol. III, p. 736, and Vol I, p. XLI.