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.