Extent: 95 leaves : paper ; 218 x 142 (166 x 76) mm. bound to 218 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1b. Copied by Mehmet el-Zehrî, known as Yenişehrî, a pupil of İbrahim el-Hatip Zade, and completed on the 10th of Jumādá al-Ākhir 1167 (1754) -- colophon (fol. 94a). 23 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame outlined in red ink. On fol. 1b-2a the frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece in gold leaf with blue, purple, white and orange watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with... Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
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