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Country

Turkey

City

İstanbul

Institution

Fatih Millet Ktp.

Collection

Ali Emiri Koleksiyonu Manzum

Shelfmark

no. 1209

Contents

Kitāb-i Ferhengnāme-i Ḫoca Mesʿūd (Ḫoca Mesʿūd)

Author

Ḫoca Mesʿūd

Show other names

Mesʿūd b. Aḥmed

خواجة مسعود

مسعود بن احمد

Hoca Mesut, active 14th century (authorised)

Hoca Mesud, active 14th century (variant)

Hoca Mesut, 14th cent (variant)

Mesʻūd bin Aḥmed, active 14th century (variant)

Mesud ibni Ahmed, active 14th century (variant)

Mesut bin Ahmet, active 14th century (variant)

Mesut, Hoca, active 14th century (variant)

Biographical notes

There is some confusion in the scholarly literature regarding the identification of Ḫoca Mesʿūd. The sixteenth-century Ottoman biographer of poets, ʿĀşıḳ Çelebī, in his Meşāʿirü’ş-Şuʿarā refers to Ḫoca Mesʿūd, author of the work, Süheyl ü Nev-Bahār, as a poet living during Murad I’s reign. J. H. Mordtmann believed that Ḫoca Mesʿūd was the same individual as Ḳul Mesʿūd, author of Kelīle ve Dimne, based on linguistic similarities between the two works Süheyl ü Nev-Bahār and Kelīle ve Dimne, and speculated that these works must have been produced for the Aydınid rulers of Ayasuluk. In contradiction to Mordtmann, M. F. Köprülü argued that Ḫoca Mesʿūd was not the same as Ḳul Mesʿūd and posited that Ḫoca Mesʿūd was a Germiyanid poet who must have been the famous Germiyanid poet Şeyhoğlu’s teacher, as the latter’s praise-filled references to Ḫoca Mesʿūd in his works indicate. Subsequent scholars generally following Köprülü in identifying Ḫoca Mesʿūd as a Germiyanid scholar.

Title

Kitāb-i Ferhengnāme-i Ḫoca Mesʿūd

Notes

This work is the first known Turkish translation of the Persian classic, Saʿdī’s Bustān (بستان) It was composed in 1354 [1354 CE] in the mutaqārib metre.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Şeyḥ Mesʿūd bin ʿOsmān, . Ferhangnāme-i Saʿdī Tercümesi. Edited by Bilge, Rifat and Veled Çelebi. Istanbul: 1340-1342.

Studies

Erkan, Mustafa and Mustafa Özkan. "Hoca Mesud." TDVİA. 18 1998: 189-191.

Kartal, Ahmet. "Sadi’nin Bostan’ı İle Hoca Mesʿud’un Ferheng-name-i Sadi İsimli Mesnevilerinin Mukayesesi." Kırıkkale Üniversitesi SBE Dergisi Blim Yolu. 3 2003.

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Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1856

Physical Description

Number of folios

n/a ff.

History

Date of copy

19th. century