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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.392, cont.)

Literature: Gönül Alpay Tekin in ÏA and El 2 . (1) ff. lb-69b Divan

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A collection of poems; the word 'divan' and the name of the poet occur on f. la. It contains a kaside (lb-4a); a terkib-i bend (4a-5b); another ten kastdes (5b-21b); 197 gazels in divan sequence (21b-63b); a Persian chronogram dated 1023 (1614- 5); 26 quatrains (64a-66b); a series of 53 rhymed beyts (66b-69b). More poems nearly all showing the author’s manias, and additions to the original text were written in the margins and between the lines of the original manuscript among them a kaside in praise of Sultan Murad [IV], partly erased towards the end (margins of ff. lb-3b, 8a-13a, dated ‘109’); two fahriyes (4a-6b); a terkib-i bend (6b-7b); 129 gazels (in the margins of 23a-65b); seven quatrains (margins of 65a- 66b); and 24 beyts (between the lines of 66b-68a); two beyts in different hands are found on f. la. Begins (lb): j*£,l JaLfu Jiiio Ends (69b): L "' uLJLe 4jLu, * ^ a ^1 ^ j< f-— Catalogue entries: Götz I, 431-3, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1787 (II, p. 70); TYTK (Siileymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 227. (2) ff. 70b-107b Saki-name -, <uu A poem, book of the cup-bearer’, in mesnevi rhyme with scattered quatrains indicated in red, preceded by an introduction (70b-72b); the title is mentioned in f.72b. 10. A few additional couplets in the margins. Begins (70b): «■^3 * aSIjI ^ jl».| Jjl