Hikmet - Akademik Edebiyat Dergisi

Abstract

Mecmua studies are an important area of classical literature research in terms of text publication. It has been observed that researchers have recently focused more on mecmuas. There are many benefits of mecmua studies in terms of the evolution of literary history research. The most important of these is that mecmuas include poetry samples of poets whose divans and other works are not available. Mecmuas are also very valuable in terms of including poems of poets whose divans and works are available but not included in these works. Another benefit of journal studies that cannot be ignored is that they include poets whose names are not mentioned in biographies or biographical sources by giving examples of their poems. This study also stems from an attention to this last mentioned feature of mecmuas. The poetry mecmua examined in the study includes poems of well-known poets of classical literature as well as ghazals of a poet with the pseudonym Rabıt, about whom there is no information in biographies and biographical sources. Registered in Istanbul University Rare Works Library under the number NEKTY10936, Mecmû’a-yı Gazeliyyât is a small-scale and meticulously organized mecmua. Some pages of the mecmua are missing and some parts are unreadable due to the ink smearing. This study aims to transcribe the texts of 10 ghazals belonging to the poet with the pen name Râbıt and to examine the ghazals using the textual analysis method. In this way, it is aimed to contribute to the history of literature on the basis of artists and works. Images of the published copy are added at the end of the study.