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Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Turcs

Shelfmark

Ancient fons turc 363

Contents

Husrev ü Şîrin (Şeyhı̂, approximately 1373-approximately 1422)

Author

Şeyhı̂, approximately 1373-approximately 1422

شيخي

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Şeyhı̂, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (authorised)

Germiyani, Yûsuf Sinan, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (variant)

Şeyhı̂, ca. 1373-ca. 1422 (variant)

Sinaneddin, Yusuf, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (variant)

Yusuf Sinan, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (variant)

Yûsuf Sinan Germiyani, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (variant)

Yusuf Sinaneddin, approximately 1373-approximately 1422 (variant)

شيخي (variant)

Biographical notes

An Anatolian poet and physician, Şeyḫī was born in Kütahya, the capital of Germiyan (Turkey) region. One of his tutors was Aḥmedī, a famous Ottoman poet of the late 14th and 15th century [1350-1499 CE], during his youth. He went to Iran and majored in literature, Islamic mysticism and medicine. After his return to Kütahya, he joined in the court of Germiyan ruler Yākub II and he practiced as the court ophthalmologist. He got in touch with the Ottomans in the time of Emīr Süleymān Chelebi, and got the title reīs-i eṭıbbā (head of physicians) of the Ottomans when he cured Mehmed I. He is famous for his masnawis (e.g. Ḫüsrev ü Şîrîn and Ḫarnâme) and accepted as one of the founders of Ottoman literature. He was called as hüsrev-i şuarā, pīşterīn-i şuarā-yı Rūm or şeyhü’ş-şuarā (all means “head of poets”) in the sources. His tomb is in Dumlupınar, Kütahya.

Title

Husrev ü Şîrin

خسرو و شيرين

Notes

An abridgement of the classical Persian poem on the love between Khusraw and Shīrīn in Turkish and without appendixes

Main language of text

Ottoman Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Seyhi, . Şeyhʼ̌nin Husrev ü Şîrinʼ: İnceleme-metin. Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi basımevi., 1963.

Ṣeyhi, . Poemat irański Husrev-u-Šīrīn w worsji osnańsko-tureckisj Šeyhī. Edited by Sinā, Yūsuf. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1963.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits turcs. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-33, Fons 363.

Physical Description

Number of folios

181 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 11cm, height 17cm

Hand

Kūrd bin Ḥamsāʼ, fl. 1495, کورد بن حمساء

History

Place

Pristina (Kosovo)

Date of copy

15th. century