The Poetry Collection Numbered 06 Mil Yz A 803 at the National Library

Abstract

Poetry collections are one of the collections which have various varieties in terms of content. It is possible to obtain a lot of information about the history of literature through the poetry collections. The poems which were popular in the period when the collection was compiled but were not mentioned in the sources themselves, the poets who were liked in the period but had no chance to enter into the biographical sources and the poems which could not take place in the daily divan or any other works even though they were mentioned in sources are some of this information. The basis of this study is the detailed presentation of the poetry collection of Yz A 803 at the National Library and the table based on MESTAP. The collection consists of 138 varak. There are 530 poems which are the works 134 poets in total. There a re a total of 6 15 poems whose poets can not be identified. In the poetry collection, there are gazels, kasides and musammats (tahmis, museddes, musebba', terkib-i bend). The poet whose poems are included most is Baki.