Descriptive Information

Title

ديوان نفعي.

Transliterated Title

Divan-i Nef'î.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1666

Identifier

ark:/88435/c821gv33s

Publisher

[1846]

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Date Created

1846

Extent

i, 24, ii leaves : paper ; 176 x 122 (140 x 90) mm. bound to 176 x 125 mm.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from fol. 1b.

Copied by Osman Kemamî in 1262 (1846) -- colophon (fol. 24a). Following this is a note (in the same hand) about saying a prayer for the author, ending in the date :"sene 1152" (1739-40) [?].

10 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Fol. 1b has a simple text frame outlined in black and gold ink. Fol. 15b-16a have single line text frames in red ink. Throughout, the text is written in two columns, diagonally. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a and 24b both have additional verses written in the same hand. Few short inscriptions on front and back endleaves. "Divani Nefi" written in pencil on the recto of front flyleaf.

Incipit: شاه عشقم عالم معنى مسلم در بكا خلق عالم بر نفس شاد اولمغه جانلر ويرر

Explicit: طبع نفعى كبى پرواز بلنداته نولا افتاب سايه صالمش بر همادر طره سى

Binding Note

Green paper embossed in flower pattern over pasteboard on covers, with brown leather on spine. Endleaves in yellow paper strengthened at the spine with strips of red, black and white pattern decorative paper. Label on upper cover: "291".

Discovery Information

Subject

Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

56

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ab35140-63cd-43c2-8292-aefafa2fd956/manifest

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