Extent: 66 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (153 x 102) mm. bound to 202 x 144 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a. Ms. additions: a biographical note on fol. 3a on Hâkî Dede, in which he is identified as a Nakşibendi, and we are told that he travelled to India, China, the Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Baghdad; an inscription reading "Bende Muslimân" on fol. 1a; two couplets of poetry on fol. 2a, signed Mehmet. 13 lines per page. Written in an elegant medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ink for headings. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, mostly in two columns separated with two lines in gold and black ink. Fol. 4b-5a have double gold-leaf frame, with margins and the space between the columns decorated with floral pattern painted in gold ink. Fol. 4b has an... Ownership signature on fol. 1a by Nasuh Aǧa, a çavuş at the Imperial Palace (in Istanbul), dated 1028 (1618-19).
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