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The Book of Aroodh
This manuscript, by an unknown author, is an incomplete
work that endeavors to apply Arabic poetry metrics to Ottoman Turkish poems. It
starts with the seas (or metrics) of al-mutaqarib, ar-ramal,
and al-munsarih. The transcription is possibly from the 17th century. The
manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the
University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO
Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a
Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a
collection of ...
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Divan of Sultan Husayn Mirza
This folio includes ten lines of poetry from a divan (compendium of poems) written in Chagatay Turkish by the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Mirza (1438–1506). Executed in nasta'liq script through a process of découpage, the fragment belongs to a now dispersed manuscript possibly calligraphed by Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi around 1490. Sultan Husayn Mirza b. Mansur b. Bayqara was ruler of Khurasan, based in its capital city of Herat (present-day Afghanistan), from 1469 to his death in 1506. The city was an important cultural center, attracting both Turkish ...
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