A Radical Discourse of Desire: Küsnâme

Year 2019, , 166 - 169, 27.12.2019

Selim Sırrı Kuru

https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2019.9

Abstract

Found in the Suna and İnan Kıraç
Foundation Manuscript Collection
within the Istanbul Research Institute,
under the title “Name-i Tacîzâde
Çelebi rahmetu’l-lahu ‘aleyhi,” this
short work, which was preserved in
a miscellaneous collection [mecmua]
and kept for a few generations in the
Baldırzâde family, is thought to be
Küsnâme (“Expression of Desire”), the
work of Tacîzâde Cafer Çelebi (d. 1515),
a prominent public servant and poet.

Keywords

cafer çelebi, küsname, ottoman literature, ottoman manuscripts

Aykırı Bir Arzu Söylemi: Küsname

Abstract

Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı Elyazması Koleksiyonu'nda bulunan, “Name-i Tacizâde Çelebi” adıyla Baldırzâde ailesinin birkaç kuşaktan üyelerinin tuttuğu bir mecmuada yer alan bu eserin, önemli devlet görevlisi ve şair Cafer Çelebi’nin Küsname adlı eseri olduğu düşünülüyor.

Keywords

küsname, osmanlı elyazmaları, osmanlı edebiyatı, cafer çelebi

References

• 1 Mecmua-i Baldırzâde, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Manuscript Collection, SVIKV, İAE ŞR 525/9, 140b-141b. The mecmua also includes fatwas from Ebussuud (d. 1574) and other Islamic jurists; waqf deeds, song, poems, prayers, translations of hadiths, Quranic suras, letters; Turkish, Arabic, Azerbaijani, and Persian notes and quotations; copies of imperial edicts; biographical notes on the members of Baldırzâde family, etc. For a full list of the contents, see Günay Kut et al., eds., İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Yazma Eserler Kataloğu, v. 1 (İstanbul: İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, 2014), 1346-1356. The manuscript is currently displayed at the Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts exhibition (October 18, 2019 – July 25, 2020) at the Istanbul Research Institute.
• 2 For a detailed introduction of this manuscript, see Fatma Büyükkarcı Yılmaz, “On yedinci yüzyıldan bir kırkambar: Baldırzâde ailesine ait bir mecmua,” Turkish Studies 8, no. 1 (2013): 549-578. Along with descriptions and quotations from various works found in the miscellaneous collection, this article also includes a description of the “Nâme-i Tâcîzâde Cafer Çelebi” and suggests it as the “Küsnâme.” The article also includes transcriptions of a selected 49 couplets from the work (p. 559-564).
• 3 Âşık Çelebi, Meşâ‘irü’ş-şu‘arâ, ed. Filiz Kılıç (İstanbul: İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, 2010), 460-461.
• 4 Gözüm yaşını döndürdün bınara, koçaklasam seni çeksem kenara, 141a.
• 5 Gümüş sandukaya iy cân-ı cânân, revân itsem hadeng-i la‘l-peykân, 141a.
• 6 Âşık Çelebi, Meşâ‘irü’ş-şu‘arâ, 460.