Compedium of poems
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Summary View
- Country
- France
- City
- Paris
- Institution
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Collection
- Manuscrits Persans
- Shelfmark
- Supplement Persan 520
Contents
- Compedium of poems (Wāḥidī)
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- Author
- Wāḥidī
- واحدی
- Show other names
- Wāḥidī, fl. 1471 (authorised)
- واحدی (variant)
- Title
- Compedium of poems
- Notes
- The title is not clear but an owner of the manuscript wrote in the f. 1v the title Dīvān-i Awḥad (دیوان اوحد)
- Different parts of the work contain a variety of dedications to Anatolian personalities. For example to Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 in ff. 3r, 11r, 13r, 17v, 22v, 24v, 33v, 39v, 41v, 43v, 48v, 49v, 54r, 55v, 63r and 63v; also called Abū al-Fātiḥ Sulṭān Muḥammad, ابو الفاتح سلطان محمد is mentioned in f. 111 and as Shāh jihān Muḥammad Abū al-Fātiḥ, شاه جهان محمد ابو الفاتح in f. 63v. There are also dedications to Prince Muṣṭafá (f. 36v) and Prince Bayezid, d.1512 (f. 51r), both sons of Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481. Finally there are dedications to Ottoman dignitaries such as Mahmut Paşa, -1474 (ff. 5r, 8r, 15v, 45v, 52v, et. al.) and Muḥammad Pashā, possibly Mehmet Paşa Karamanlı, Ottoman Grand Vizier, r. 1477-1481 (ff. 9v, 29r, 30v, 65r-67v, et. al.)
- Main language of text
- Persian
- Bibliography
- Catalogue
- Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 1673.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 114 ff.
- Dimensions of folio
- width 12.5cm, height 18.5cm
History
- Place
- Anatolia
- Date of copy
- 15th. century