Transcribed text of Mecmua-i Gazelı̇yat (İÜ-TY03802) and its systematic classification according to MESTAP criteria

Our study consists of the translation and systematic classification of the ghazal collection Mecmua-i Gazeliyat, which is located in Istanbul University Rare Works Library (NEKTY03802) with the local location number. Mecmua-i Gazeliyat is a collection of selected poems. It is not known by whom this 112 volume collection was compiled and when it was compiled is also unknown. Mecmua is important for Turkish literature as it contains poems not included in divans and poems of poets without divans. Our study is divided into three main sections, excluding the introduction and conclusion. In the introduction, general information about the mecmuas is given. In the first chapter, Mecmua-i Gazeliyat is introduced. In the second part, the mecmua containing ghazals of Classical Turkish literature artists living in the 15th and 16th centuries such as Necâtî, Zâtî, Üsküplü İshak Çelebi, Hayretî, Mesîhî, Âhî, Revânî, Şemʿî, ʿAmrî, Kâdirî, Nihânî, Ahmed-i Dâʿi, Nesîmî, Emrî, Bâkî, Şeyhî, Yahya Bey (Taşlıcalı) and Saʿdî is compared with the divans and transliterated. In the third section, the ghazals and other poems in the collection are classified within the scope of the Systematic Classification of Poetry Collections Project (MESTAP). In the conclusion, the results and the gazelles and couplets that are included in Mecmua-i Gazeliyat but are not found in the divans are stated.