Özet:

Müftî-zâde Burhân Mehmed Reşid Efendi is a divan poet who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A master thesis was prepared based on a manuscript registered in Topkapı Palace Museum Library about Burhân’s poems. There is another manuscript that is registered in the Süleymaniye Library with the title mecmua and is not the subject of the thesis. This manuscript, which contains only Burhân’s poems and have the characteristics of a divan draft with various scribbles, corrections and notes on the poems, has set the ground for this article by providing the opportunity to mention the differences between the two copies. The purpose of this article is to examine Burhân’s poetry writing processes based on the original data contained in his manuscript and thus to give an idea what stages a tradition poet went through while writing poetry. For this purpose, after the short biography of Burhân was given, two manuscripts were described and the differences between them were identified and evaluated. As a result, it was emphasized that the similarity between Burhân's arrangements on his poems and the acceptances of the classical poetry tradition. It has also been stated that similar copies, which are in draft form, will provide important contributions to critical manuscript studies. The article was completed with the publication of the poems that were not reflected in the Topkapı copy, in other words, the unknown poems of Burhân.