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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi

Collection

Yazma Bağışlar

Shelfmark

4040

Contents

Work 1: Behçetü’l-Ḥadāʾiḳ ()

LOC subject headings

Turkish language To 1500

Faith (Islam) (Early works to 1800)

Faith (Islam)Qurʼanic teaching

Author

Show other names

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).

fol. 133: the author writes that he began to compose the work in Karahisar Develü in 669 AH [1270 CE], completing it in 685 AH [1286 CE], over a period of 16 years.

Main language of text

Turkish, with some Persian and Arabic

Foliation

1v-137r

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.

Work 2: Güzīde ()

Title

Güzīde

كزيده

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

Foliation

137v-189r

Work 3: ()

Notes

Unidentified work on ethics

Foliation

189v-206v

Physical Description

Number of folios

206 ff.

History

Date of copy

16th. century