Manuscripts of Hasan Kaimi Baba poetry
Abstract
Kaimi Baba, the Bosnian poet and sufi from the 17th century is famous for a great number of transcripts of his works. Kaimi is the author of two alhamiado poems and two collections of poetry in the Turkish language which can be titled Divan I and Divan II, Varidat. It was the latter collection, Varidat, that made him famous. The topics of its poems are the political events and struggle with Austria and Venice on the Western frontier of the Ottoman Empire.
About one hundred of manuscripts of Kaimi's works have been kept in numerous libraries of Europe and the Near Rast. However, it is far from being the total number since many of his works are privately owned and are not registered. Yet, they give us considerable data about the life and work of this poet. He died at Zvornik in 1103/1691-2.
