Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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One of the important sections of classical Turkish literature researches is exegeses. In our literary history, exegeses have been written on many different types of works in verse or prose. Among these works diwan, masnavi, verse dictionary, science of logic, rhetoric and some independent poems are the first ones that come to find. Exegeses are sometimes written in order to better understand a work by the reader, to clarify its unclear or closed directions, and sometimes to contribute to second language learning. In the history of Turkish literature, many annotator have written exegeses on the works of famous Persian poets such as Hafız-ı Şirazi, Molla Cami, Urfi-i Şirazi. The exegesis written by Vasıta was also written on the Divan of Persian poet Abdurrahman Cami. There is no information about Vasıta in the biographical and historical sources of the period. Based on the exegesis, it is presumed that he knows Arabic and Persian well, and that he has a good command of some basic subjects related to Sufism. In this study, firstly general information about the exegeses will be given, and then the considerations about Vasıta’s life will be conveyed. The manuscript in the Istanbul Resarch Instıtute and Zeytinoglu District Public Library will be introduced, and after the characteristics of language and style, the determinations about the annotation method of the commentator will be given, the annotations of some poems will be stated.