[Hilye-yi Hakani] - [حلیۀ خاقانی]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7144
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1144
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 36 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 36 ff. Dimensions : 201 mm x 142 mm. Script : Nastaliq.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a poem describing the personal appearance of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم by Hakani (died 1015 AH/1606-07 CE). The text of the Hilye comes to an end on f 24r. The rest of the manuscript contains the following works:. ff 24r-25v : A na't-i şerif written by Abdi Efendi, one of the intimates (havas) of Sultan Mahmud I (1730-54 CE);. ff 26v-35r : A tract that does not bear a title translated (possibly from the Arabic) by Şeyh Halil dealing with the various parts of the body from moral and religious points of view. The author divides the body into 8 aza and explains the goodness and evil of each part concerned. Both the first and second texts of the volume were copied in the same hand, that of Hüseyin İbnü'l-Hacc Ahmet, in 1144 AH (1731-32 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Bequeathed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Related Material

For other copies of this text, please see Or 7143, Or 7243 inner margins, Or 7265 text 4, Or 8038 text 2; Or 11128 text 4, Or 12178 text II, Add MS 5989, and Add MS 7936. For more information on the text and the author, please see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 257; HOP III, p. 193; OM II, p. 163; and Karatay II, p. 132.