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Country

Vatican

City

Vatican City

Institution

Vatican Library

Collection

Turkish Manuscripts

Shelfmark

142

Contents

Eş'ar (Ahmet Bican, active 15th century)

Author

Ahmet Bican, active 15th century

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احمد بيجان

Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed Bīcān b. Ṣāliḥ el-Gelibolu, d. after 1465

Yazıcızāde Aḥmed Bīcān

Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (authorised)

Ahmed Bican, active 15th century (variant)

Ahmed Bijan, active 15th century (variant)

Ahmet Bican, 15th cent (variant)

Bican, Ahmet, active 15th century (variant)

Bidøjøan, Aḥmet, active 15th century (variant)

Bijan, Ahmed, active 15th century (variant)

Yaz♯łc♯łoglu Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)

Yaz♯łc♯łzade Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)

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Biographical notes

The early Ottoman mystic and author of religious and apocalyptic works, Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed, d. after 1465, was the son of Yazıcı Ṣāliḥ b. Süleymān, a clerk employed in the Ottoman government, and younger brother of Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, d. 855/1451. Born in a village outside of Malkara (Tekirdağ, Turkey), he later settled in Gelibolu (Turkey) where he composed his works during the reigns of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451 and Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481. Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed Bīcān was a disciple of Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 the founder of the Bayramīyah order.

Title

Eş'ar

Notes

Main language of text

Turkish

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Vatican Library 103

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Physical Description

Number of folios

153 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

History

Date of copy

17th. century