Aykırı Bir Arzu Söylemi: Küsname
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.
A Radical Discourse of Desire: Küsnâme
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.
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- 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.