Abstract
A POETRY COLLECTION REGISTERED AT HARVAR UNIVERSITY HOUHTON LIBRARY MS TURK NUMBER 59
Ottoman poets used to collect their poems into a book called "divan" or "conk". However lots of them died before doing this or some of their poems are not placed in the books for some reason. This kind of poems may be called lost treasures of poets.
Poetry collections are some kind of anthologies represent popularity of poets and poetic intellection of period they had been written in. They are enormously significant in terms of registering poems written by poets who do not have divan or poems of famous poets which are not included in their divans.
Poetry collections which have many sorts are lost treasure chests of poetry. Poetry collection we studied in this work, containing samples from minstrel literature and divan literature is a 93 page work which was written in 17th century. There are 154 poets' 595 poems in this collection
Keywords
poetry collections, divan poetry, minstrel poetry, 17th. century, Houghton Library
