I. Parlatir , Gy. Hazai , B. Kellner-Heinkele (comp.): Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Catalogue - II. Literature

Because the last beyit is a chronogram (tarih) for writing the work, it is also noted in numbers under it. At the end of the manuscript there is a long manzume. 145 TÖRÖK O. 173 One vol.; 101 fols.; 17 lines; double columns; p.d. 169 x 107 mm, w.s. 1

15 x 65 mm. Bound in ebru covered cardboard; tattered. Paper: with watermarks; script: ta'lik; ink: black; headings are in red; gilded opening heading (

serlevha

) with dark blue decoration; all pages are framed by a gilded border; catchwords. Gül it bülbül (JJL j Jl) (Opening heading

/serlevha) Begins: a 1İ3 <LI (jJjl <111 (lb) <111 pjl 3EH3LİI Ends: Jit 1

1, <olE tjlj ^jjL (101b) JHjJl Mesnevi by the 16

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h c. poet F

AZLÎ (d. 971/1564). After his primary education F

AZLÎ EFENDİ (opening heading/serlevha: lb), who is also known as KARA F

AZLÎ in Turkish literature, joined the Halveti sheikh Zarifi Hasan Efendi. He received lessons from the famous contemporary Z

ATÎ

. He presented a kaside on the occasion of the circumcision feast of Şehzade Mehmed to Kanunî Sultan Süleyman (1520-1566); he became famous and was promoted to reisülkiittab (1562). He died two years later. Other works by the same author: 1. Divan, 2. Hüma ve hümayun, 3. Lehçetü

'l-esrar

, 4. Nahlistan, 5. Gül ii bülbül. The work was composed in 1553 and presented to Şehzade Mustafa. The mesnevi was published in Germany under the title Gül u Bülbül d.i. Rose und Nachtigall by J. v. Hammer-Purgstall (Leipzig 1834). There are numerous copies of Gül ü bülbül. In the first place Istanbul University Library N° 3761 and Millet Kütüphanesi N° 1166 are to be mentioned. Literature: EI 2.737-738; İA 4.533; KOCATÜRK 56; OM 2.359; PhTF (1964).645; TA 32.118; TDEA 3.172; TDVÍA 24.360. 120