Item Summary

Ms. is a collection of the poems of Necâtı̂ Bey probably copied in the 16th century. Additional poems by Fevzi, Yahya, Zaifi and others in margins and on f. 1a and 96b-98b.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديوان نجاتى بك.
Transliterated Title
Divan-ı Necatı̂ Bey.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2025Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z029p747n
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Format
Manuscript
Extent
[196] p. (15-20 lines), bound ; 21 cm.
Provenance
Gift of Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Caption title.
Volume contains 98 f. of glazed paper of European origin measuring 198 x 137 mm. Paper bears watermarks of "main" "ancre dans un cercle", and "tête de boeuf au serpent stenroulant autour d'une croix" but none have matches in Briquet, Les filigranes. Text area measures 141-154 x 79 mm.; text written in Kırma script in two or more hands on f. 1b-95b. Catchwords included through f. 68 which appears to be a dividing line between copyists. Some pages bound out out of order; headings in red ink.
Binding is pasteboard covered in red leather with stamped gilded borders, center designs and spine decorations.
Incipit, p. [1]: واركن جانانه كوكلم جانه اولمز آشيا شمعى قويب غير له پروانه اولمز آشنا ...
Explicit, p. [189]: شراى شوقيله اسرار عشقه دلده رس بولدك هنه بزم ثم انكيز جهابده قورياس سن.

Discovery Information

Subject
Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
204

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6e5a8f37-55dc-4cff-8b5b-0abe1e282acc/manifest