Extent: 127 leaves : paper ; 198 x 146 (158 x 105) mm. bound to 198 x 148 mm.
Note:
Ms. composite codex. Title from fol. 5a. Collation: Paper ; catchwords. Layout: 20-25 lines per page. Description: Written chiefly in very small nastaʻlīq (except for texts 6-9 which have larger nastaʻlīq) in black ink with use of red ; paper varies, fol. 1-2 and 122-127 on light purple stained paper ; texts 6-9 have substantial water damage to the paper and some of the text is illegible. Origin: [Minhac ül-fukarâ] Copied by Derviş Mehmet ibn Hasan, from the town of Livadiye (Crimea), in the Mevlevi tekke in Damascus ("fī al-Ḥaram al-Shām fī al-Mawlīyah al-Firdawsīyah"), and completed around the middle of Shawwāl 1035 (1626) -- colophon (fol. 116a). Only the main text, Minhac ül-fukarâ, is dated; of the rest, texts 6-9 are on same paper and probably of a similar date, while the...
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