Ankara National Library Wri̇ti̇ng Collection 06 mil yz a 10103 place number Mecmu'a-i Eş'ar (examination-comparative text)

The main purpose of this study is to analyse one of the poetry journals, being among the most significant sources of Classical Turkish Literature, one of which may have contribution to the history of literature, according to our point of view. The reason of the importance of the poetry journals is that the poems generally stay within the frames of their poets' own divans. Poetry journals have not been studied as much as divans. However, the poems of different poets could get into the divans. At this point, the necessity of the journals and the "conks" come to exist. They give the opportunity to fix these kinds of mistakes. Besides, it is also possible to encounter to the poems that could not get into any divans due to various reasons – the poems that a poet wrote after he/she had organized a divan, or just did not give a place purposefully. The ones which are determined in this manner may get into the divans. It is likely to see the taste of poetry and the popular poems of the period that the journal was arranged. It is also possible to encounter to the poems whose poets do not belong to any divans and to identify the taste of poetry not only of that period, but also of the scribal. In this sense, we aim to analyse the poetry journal registered in Ankara Millî Kütüphane, Yazmalar Koleksiyonu (Manuscript Collection) with the number of 06 Mil Yz A 10103. This poetry journal generally belongs to the poets whose divans have been studied; such as Sırrî Rahile Hanım, Ahmed Râsih, Hayret, Ali Rızâ Paşa, Sünbül-zâde Vehbî, Şâdî Bey, Fazl, Sûzî, Nevres-i Kadîm, Osman Nevres, Şem'î, Antepli Aynî, Yavuz Sultan Selim (Selîmî), Enderunlu Vâsıf, Bağdatlı Ruhî, Emrî, Niyâzî-i Mısrî, Dâniş, Fuzûlî, Leylâ Hanım, Nazîf, Nef'î, Râşid, Mısrî, Seyfî, Surûrî, Haşmet, Mehmed Âkif Paşa, Şeyhülislâm Yahyâ, Na'ilî, Şeyh Gâlib, Fıtnat Hanım, Hasan Sezâyî, Keçecizâde İzzet Mollâ, Ahmed Dede (Köse/Nevî), Nazmî, Nedîm, Hoca Neş'et, Zeynep Hanım, Lem'i Atlı, Fatîn, Nâzım, Müştâk, Kâzım, Abdülhamid Ziyâeddin Paşa, etc. Due to the abundance of the well-known poets, we only aim to present the existing work and to introduce the poetry journal. The most significant feature of our poetry journal is that most of the poems that were categorized by the scribal under the titles of gazel and kıt'â were composed. For this reason, we have presented some information about these composed poems, such as their repertoire number, maqam, lyrics, composition style, form and their soloists in the section named "Mecmû'ada Bulunan Güfteler", respectively. In "Mecmû'a-i Eş'âr", there are 131 poems in total from 45 different poets which gazel, murabba', şarkı, tesmîn, kıt'a, tahmîs, müseddes-i mütekerrir, müstezâd, murabba'-ı mütekerrir and beyt. As for poetry forms, there are medhiyye, mersiye, münâcât, nasîhât-nâme, nazîre and tevhîd. We tabulate these poems according to the Systematic Sorting Project of Mecmua's (MESTAP) as page number, mahlas, matla, makta, poetry type, poetry form, the rhythmic structure and instructions. Keywords: Mecmû'a-i Eş'âr, Classical Turkish Poetry, Song, Poem, MESTAP