Unavailable “Gazel” Lyrics in Rizayi Dewan

Unavailable “Gazel” Lyrics in Rizayi Dewan

Yapici, Sefika
Gonel, Huseyin

Mehmed Ali Celebi who wrote by using the pesudonym “Rizayi” is one of the poets of 17th century. He has both works written in prose and one “müretteb dewan”. It is stated that first 15 couplets of 15. number qasida in that dewan was unread before. In a corpus (mecmua), recorded with R-6809 number and named “Mecmua-i Devavin” in Gazi Husrev Bey Library, in Bosnia, those unread 15 couplets is detected. Furthermore, there are 9 unavailable gazel lyrics in Rizayi Dewan in the same corpus. There are poems of Rizayi in Mecmua-i Devavin. The writer of that corpus wrote till “Kaf” letter among the poems of that poet. He chose poems among the poems of that poet. We will publish above mentioned unavailable 9 gazel lyrics in the dewan and first 15 couplets.

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2012

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