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

Literature: OM 2.126; PhTF (1964).445; TA 10.294-295; TDEA 2.58; TDVİA 7

.460; • H. AYAN, Çevri. Hayatı, edebî kişiliği, eserleri ve divanının tenkitli metni. Erzurum 1981. The preceding risale is Hilye-i Hakanî (lb-21a), the following ones are Şerh-ı havass-ı esma-yi hasna (29b-34a), Hilyetii'n-Nebi (35b-40b), Hilye-i miirselin (46b-52b), Risale-i viicub (72b—97b), Şerh-i esmaii 'l-hasna (54a67b) and Risale-i Dua-name-i Ebussuud (98b-168b). Three folios at the end contain gazels. For manuscripts in other collections sec: GÖTZ (1979), N° 489; MTO I, N° 1435. 78 TÖRÖK O. 133 (Work N° I in the manuscript) (See also N" 79) Fols. [3]+lb-2Ia; 19 lines; double columns; p.d. 203 x 121 mm, w.s. 167 x 73 mm. Clothbound; in good condition. Paper: with watermarks; script: ta'lik

; ink: black; headings are in red; decorated opening heading (serlevha); lb-2a arc framed by a double, 2b-71a by a single red line; the following pages have no frame; catchwords. Hilye-i Hâkâni (^UâE Hilyetii'n-Nebi ÂJE.) (lb) Begins: pUE pEü pj û Jj I < 111 n . .1 i (1 b) P IE 1O.

TO JJ Li Vj I ^ELfi Ends: pik ^J^sjLi t^Si JJJ ^akjl (20b) pLli ^aljl plli <1 p<JLjjj _JJ This work of H

AKANÎ MEHMED BEY (d. 1015/1606) was written in 1007/ 1598-1599 (20b). H

AKANÎ M

EHMET BEY'S date of birth is unknown. Some sources allege that he was the head of a sancak and the book-keeper in the Imperial Chancery of State (Divan-ihii mayun). He performed the pilgrimage and died after his return to Istanbul; he is buried in the Mihrimah Mosque cemetery in Edirnekapi. Besides the Hilye there are two other works of H

AKANÎ

: the Divan and Miftah-ı fütuhat. This Hilye, which relates the physical and spiritual attributes of the Prophet Muhammed, was as popular and well-known as SÜLEYMAN ÇELEBI

's Mevlid. Numerous manuscripts of it exist. The work is also known as Hilye-i şerif. In the title of this copy the 65