Summary View

Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Hacı Selim Ağa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi

Collection

Hüdâî Efendi Koleksiyonu

Shelfmark

1354

Contents

Miftāḥu’l-Ferec (Cemālī, d. after 883/1478)

Author

Cemālī, d. after 883/1478

ﺟﻤﺎﻟﻲ

Show other names

Bāyezīd b. Muṣṭafā b. Şeyḫ Aḥmed-i Tercümānī el-Aḳşehrī

Bāyezīd b. Muṣṭafā el-Meşhūr Şeyḫoġlı

Şeyḫoġlı Cemālī

ﺑﺎﻳﺰﻳﺪ بن ﻣﺼﻄﻔﻰ بن ﺷﻴﺦ ﺍﺣﻤﺪِ ﺗﺮﺟﻤﺎﻧﻲ ﺍﻵﻗﺸﻬﺮﻲ

ﺑﺎﻳﺰﻳﺪ بت ﻣﺼﻄﻔﻰ ﺍﻟﻤﺸﻬﻮﺭ ﺷﻴﺦ ﺍﻭﻏﻠﻲ

ﺷﻴﺦ ﺍﻭﻏﻠﻲ ﺟﻤﺎﻟﻲ

Cemâlı̂, active 15th century (authorised)

Bayezid, active 15th century (variant)

Bayezit, active 15th century (variant)

Cemâlı̂, 15th cent (variant)

Biographical notes

The pen-name of Cemālī is also used by Sufi poet Meḥmed Cemāleddīn (d. 1164/1744), which may result in a confusion of the two in mecmū‘a and cönk collections. In many of these the same pen-name also appears for Cemāl-i Ḫalvetī (d.899/1494), again leading to a possible confusion.

Cemālī is the nephew of famous court poet Şeyḫī (d. 832/1428-9).He may have also been called Şeyḫoġlı Cemālī or Şeyḫoġlı, leading to his confusion with the poet Şeyḫoġlı (d. after 803/1401-- before 812/1409). His date of birth is unknown. However it is generally accepted that he was born around 813-815 [1410-1412 CE], inferred from the estimation that he was around the age of twenty when he wrote an appendum to Şeyḫī’s Ḫusrev ü Şīrīn. Cemālī was most probably from Karaman, although he may also have been from Bursa. In addition to the nisba of el-Aḳşehrī, the nisba of el-Aḳsarāyī also appears in some manuscripts. Both towns indicate a Karamanid origin. Cemālī may have received his education in the Germiyān Beylik (Kütahya), the home town of his uncle Şeyḫī. Poems in Arabic and Persian in his Dīvān show that he was well-educated and versed in these languages. He may also have been a musician. A number of inscriptions in Bursa composed by Cemālī indicate that he may have spent part of his life in this city. Cemālī moved to Istanbul during the reign of Meḥmed II. His Dīvān includes several poems in praise of the conquest of Constantinople.Cemālī’s own reference to his old age at the time of his participation in the siege of Albania (Siege of Shkodra) in 883 AH [1478 CE] is our only definite source to the last years of his life. Cemālī’s Dīvān abounds in poetry dedicated to Meḥmed II to whom his other works are also dedicated, but no reference is made anywhere to Bāyezīd II. In contrast to the statements found in biographical dictionaries, where Cemālī is shown to have lived to the end of the reign of Bāyezīd II, we must thus conclude that he probably died at the end of the reign of Meḥmed II or in the early years of the reign of Bāyezīd II. In Osmanlı Müellifleri it is stated that his grave is located near the lodge of Emīr Buḫārī outside of Edirnekapı.

Title

Miftāḥu’l-Ferec

ﻣﻔﺘﺎﺡ ﺍﻟﻔﺮﺝ

Notes

A mes̱nevī of religious, moral, Sufi content, consisting of 4970 couplets (4913 in the edition, plus 36 Arabic and Persian, plus 21 couplets not in the manuscript selected as primary).

The work is dedicated to Meḥmed II.

The date of composition is 860 AH [1455 CE]

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Yıldız, Osman. "Cemālī-i Ḳaramānī: Miftāḥu’l-Ferec (Dil Özellikleri-Metin-Söz Dizini)." Ph.D Thesis, Malatya: İnönü Üniversitesi, 1992.

Studies

Derdiyok, İ. Çetin. Cemâlî: Hayatı, Eserleri ve Dîvânı. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, 1994.

Kut, Günay. "Cemâlî." TDVİA. Vol 7 1993.

Timurtaş, Faruk Kadri. "Fâtih Devri Şairlerinden Cemâli ve Eserleri." Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. IV, no. 3 1951: 189-213.

Timurtaş, Faruk Kadri. Şeyhî: Hayatı ve Eserleri. Istanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, 1968, 142-151.

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Nuruosmaniye Yazma Eser KÜtüphanesi 4904

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin quart 84

Hacı Selim Ağa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 447

İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserleri Kütüphanesi 2331

Bölge Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 2446

Türk Dil Kurumu Kütüphanesi Türkçe Yazmaları 322

Manisa Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1489

The Personal Library of Halil Erdoğan Cengiz

Physical Description

Number of folios

186 ff.

Columns

2

Ruled lines

13

Binding

Black leather binding with zencirek.

Addition

The first 12 folios are missing.

Hand

Copyist:Aḥmed b. Muḥammed

History

Date of copy

16th. century