Abstract
ABOUT THE POETRY MECMUA REGISTERED AT NUMBER T445 IN İSTANBUL UNIVERSITY RARE WORKS LIBRARY
Poetry mecmuas are works which bring the poems (verse and prose) in different genre and form belonging to different poets together. Mecmuas are important texts because they give place to poems of various known or unknown poets often regardless of the century difference. In addition, they have maintained their importance among the auxiliary sources of our literature history and especially the field of Classical Turkish Literature because they reflect culture, history and literary taste of their compilers and the period they were compiled. When determining the literature history, the presence of mecmuas should not be ignored. Sometimes, even the poems which do not take place in the published divan of a poet have been determined in mecmuas.
The work that we are working on is a poetry mecmua registered with the name of “Mecmuatü’l-Eş’ar” on number T445 in İstanbul University Nadir Eserler Library. Copying date and place of the mecmua are not definite. However, its copyist is a poet who has pen name “Kevser” that we could not come across in the researches. Firstly, the mecmua which consists of 80 sheets has been introduced in terms of external structure, language and content features. Then, the types of mecmua, the importance of poetry mecmuas, the poets listed alphabetically in the mecmua and their poems, compliment of the poet who wrote the mecmua to the poets and some matters considered important in the mecmua have been stated.
Keywords
Mecmua, Poem, Poetry Mecmuas, Classical Turkish Literature, Ottoman Poem
