ACQUISITIONS 2000-2 (Or. 25.761, cont.)

of poems commissioned by the local bishop Batlamiyos (cf. 22b: 1). The second letter (23b-26b) is addressed to a brother (‘biraderiim cdnum’) in Istanbul, and discusses mostly, and in great detail, complaints sent to the Porte by local people, and a possible reponse to them, about öalïl Efendi, rüzndmce at Baghdad and Basra, and later agha at Kastamom (Kastamonu) and Damascus. (3) ff. 29b-57a Miin§e'at-i Nergisf 0 ...<j* oi< -» An incomplete copy of a collection of letters by Mehmed b. Nergis Ahmed, who used the pen-name of Nergisi (d. 1044/1635), a famous writer of rhymed prose of high complexity, poet and calligrapher. He served as kail in various places in Rumelia, particularly in Bosnia where he had been bom. The work is also known as Esalibii l-mekatib. This title is found on the title page of the autograph manuscript (preserved in the Tokpapi Sarayi Library, MS Revan [kö§kü] 1056, cf. Walsh’s edition, pp. 214-5). The author mentions himself in the introduction (29b:16) as ‘Nergisf-zade’; in Walsh’s edition, p. 218, as ‘Nergis-zade’; this name is also written in red on f. 29a). The work is preceded by a long introduction (29b-33b) in which the author eulogizes the §eyhülislüm, Yahya Efendi (d. 1053/1644), and complains about the calumny of rivals obstructing his career. This collection contains 25 letters (more complete copies have 38). A few marginal additions. (For another copy of this work, see Cod.Or. 1564.)

Begins (29b, as in Walsh’s edition, p. 217): tnlhioil L> jj aS LcJlo Vi uit jLIj iiii>, hi o j.~. f (j_-1«I 4jL> j-A- Lh/ jULi I a jJ L j jhii jjLi li_i i» I j j j jaIi ... jol.-i-a j i—ojjlj jVjl 4 4K«_>A a jl j ji ü» jj-t. LI a aL> j j+A ■f> 4L >.J ojUjL u ï j a I > j £oo* I,>h 1115 t£li a Jjljjl ‘ '* J j 1 - ... aS jju I ... Cj L4A4 4

Ends (57a):

CJL u -«j i_)i LS I kjtUaJI j&dau ... j 1,7i a) jb 4ia ja <jaj L_»-l i"i in oil aua 1 t.1

Catalogue entries: Flemming 244, Sohrweide I, 148, and Götz II, 292, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 4332 (erroneously attributed to Veysï, IV, p. 58), 4761-6 (IV, pp. 172-3); Sarajevo 2951; TYTK (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi) 131; Yardim 3711.

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