Poetry compilation registered as Nuruosmaniye Library No: 4959 (Textual analysis – transcription)

Poetry compilations play a crucial role in the recognition of many unknown poets today and are essential sources for the accurate publication of divans. This study focuses on a poetry compilation recorded in Nuruosmaniye Library No. 4959, consisting of 595 folios and completed in 1102/1690-91 according to the colophon of Mehmed Fennî Efendi, and written in ta'lik script. The majority of the poems in the compilation are in Turkish, but it also includes Arabic and Persian poems. The compilation particularly features poets from the 17th century, with contributions from poets from the 15th and 16th centuries and those whose era is uncertain. The study consists of the transcription of a total of 3612 Turkish poems from the compilation. The first 144 poems in the compilation belong to Nev'î-zâde 'Atâyî. Additionally, the compilation includes poems from various poets such as Âlî (Hüseyin Ali Çelebi), 'Âlî Efendi (Gelibolulu Mustafa), Arzî (Mehmed Dede), Azmi-zâde Hâletî, Bağdatlı Rûhî, Bahâyî (Şeyhülislam), Bâkî, Beyânî, Cem'î (Mehmed Efendi), Cevrî (İbrahim Çelebi), Dânişî, Dîvânî (Semâî), Fâsih, Fehîm-i Kadîm, Fennî Çelebi, Fevrî (Ahmed), Feyzî Çelebi (Topkapılı-zâde Mustafa Çelebi), Feyzî (Ebû Sa'id-zâde Feyzullah Efendi), Firâkî, Fuzûlî, Gani-zâde Nâdirî, Gubârî, Güftî (Edirnevî), Hâşimî (Bursevî), 'Îdî (Bayram), İlâhî, 'İsmetî (Mehmed İsmet Çelebi), Kâf-zâde Fâ'izî, Mezâkî, Münîrî, Nâbî, Nâilî-i Kadîm, Necâtî, Nefèî, Nehcî (Seyyid Mustafa Dede), Nesîb (Seyyid Yûsuf), Neşâtî, Nihânî (Nacak Fâzıl), Nûşî, Riyâzî, Rızâyî (Mehmed Ali Çelebi), Rüşdî (Mehmed Efendi), Sâbir Pârsâ, Seyyid Sabrî (Mehmed Şerif), Sabûhî (Şeyh Ahmed Dede), Senâ'î, Sırrî Çelebi (İbrahim Efendi), Subhî (Bursalı Mehmed Ali), Şehrî (Malatyalı Ali), Şeyhülislam Yahyâ Efendi, Şi'rî Beg, Tıflî, 'Ulvî (Derzi-zâde), Va'dî (Ahmed Efendi), Vecdî Veysî, Zekî and Zihnî, totaling 59 poets.