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Germany

City

Berlin

Institution

Berlin Staatsbibliothek Turkish Manuscripts

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1076

Contents

Behçetü’l-Ḥadāʾiḳ ()

Author

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Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Behçetü’l-Ḥadāʾiḳ

Bahjat al-Ḥadāʾiq

بهجة الحدائق

Notes

This Turkish prose work of 41 chapters interspersed with Persian, Arabic, and Turkish verse provides a basic religious information with sections on the sacred Islamic months of Rajab, Shaʿbān, and Ramaḍan, and other sacred nights on the Islamic calendar, as well as select biographies of prophets, explanations of ḥadīth and certain verses of the Qurʾān, and other bits of religious miscellany. Its composition date is unknown, but it is believed to have been written sometime in between the late thirteenth century [1200-1299 CE] or early fourteenth century [1300-1399 CE], as the well-known copy dated from 703 AH [1303 CE] suggests. However, with the recent discovery of a previously unknown manuscript ( Süleymaniye, Yazma Bağışlar no. 4040), Mustafa Koç suggests an earlier and more definitive composition date at 685 AH [1286 CE], making this the earliest datable Anatolian Turkish work and manuscript. Place of composition is Karahisar-i Develü (outside of Kayseri).

Main language of text

Turkish, with some Persian and Arabic

Bibliography

Studies

Buluç, Saadettin. "Behcetü’l-hada’ik fi Mev’izetü'l-hala’ik’ten Örnekler." Türk Dili ve Edibiyatı Dergisi. 7, no. 1-2 1956: 17-74.

Buluç, Saadettin. "Eski Bir Türk Dili Yadigarı Behçetü’l-Ḥadâ’iḳ Fî Mev‘izeti’l-Ḫalâ’iḳ." In Prof. Dr. Saadettin Buluç & Makaleler. Korkmaz, Zeynep, ed. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, 2007.

Canpolat, Mustafa. "Behcetü’l-Hadâ’ik’in Dili Üzerine." Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı Belleten. 1967: 165-175.

Ertaylan, İsmail Hikmet. "VII. H./XIII. M. Asra Ait Çok Değerli Bir Türk Dili Yadigârı. Behcet ül-Hadâik fi Mev’izet ül-Halâik." Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. 3 1949: 275-294.

Koç, Mustafa. "Anadolu’da İlk Türkçe Telif Eser." Bilig. 57 2011: 159-174.

Physical Description

Number of folios

291 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 16.5cm, height 26.5cm

Dimensions of written area

width 11cm, height 19cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

15

Hand

Copyist: Yūsuf b. Süleymān ʿOsmānī (يوسف بن سليمان عثماني)

History

Date of copy

15th. century