Hidayet Celebi and his divan

A great number of works were given in the period of divan literature. These arethe most important documents giving information about our past. Without them our pastcould not be enlightened.Hidayet, who lived in our literature in Akkoyunlular era in the15th century, ispoet. He live term of Uzun Hasan, Halil Sultan and Yakup Sultan. He was also a swayin that era. He died before 1498 years. He has no works except for a Divan.We have his Divan?s four copies. The first one is in Bodleian, England. Thesecond one is in Chester Beatty, Ireland and the third one is in Topkapi, Istanbul,Turkey, fourth one is G. F. S. Stevensen?s own library. Except for Stevensen, otherthree copies have been used to create text. Poems were transcribed, made edition criticand ordered in classical Divan rules. There are 246 poems in total. The text of Divanwas given after his life and literary personality were studied.Key words: Hidayet, Divan, Akkoyunlular, poem, analyzed text