Extent: i, 173 leaves : paper ; 207 x 137 (139 x 77) mm. bound to 210 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 4b. Copied by the Nakşibandi Şeyh İsmail of Osman Pazarı and completed on 23 Jumādá al-Ūlá [?] 1243 (1827) -- colophon (fol. 153b). 17 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with some use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. On fol. 4b-5a the frame is double with green watercolor between the two frames and all is further outlined in one line of red ink. A small gold leaf ʻunwān on fol. 4b. Catchwords on the verso of each... Illuminations: 1. Fol. 4b-5a: illuminated text frames consisting of double gold leaf frames with the space between them filled with green watercolor and the whole outlined in one line of red ink. Small scalloped edged ʻunwān in gold leaf on fol. 4b. 2. Illuminated graphic presentation of a Nakşibandi şecere: begins with 2 illuminated panels on fol. 52b-53a consisiting of gold leaf frames outlined in black and red ink, floral corner pieces in gold ink and green, orange, purple and blue watercolors, and central circles in gold leaf, purple and green watercolors, with caligraphic inscriptions (in large naskh in black ink) of "Allāh" and...
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