Extent: 124 leaves : paper ; 188 x 125 (140 x 66) mm. bound to 188 x 130 mm.
Note:
Ms. composite codex. Title from fol. 2a (title of text 1 of the collection). Marginal annotations thoughout. Several added short texts (on fol. 1a, 1b, 83a, 83b, 121b, 122a) and short inscriptions on fol. 2a, 82b, 123b, and 124a-b. Collation: Paper ; catchwords (text 1 only). Layout: 15-25 lines per page ; main texts are frame-ruled in gold outlined with black. Description: Written in a small nastaʻlīq (which at times tends towards taʻlīq) in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Decoration: Fol. 2b (the first page of text 1) has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) executed in gold leaf and dark blue, light blue, pink, white and orange watercolors Origin: Copied in Edirne by Mehmet Rıza ibn Daniş el-Aksarayî between 1673 and 1675 -- all main texts are in same hand and style, and text 1 (Netaic ül-fünun) is signed and dated the last of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1083 (1673) -- colophon (fol. 82a), text 3 (Qaṣīdat al-burdah) has the place of production, is signed and dated the middle of Jumādá al-Ākhir 1086 (1675) -- colophon (fol. 102a), text 4... Ownership stamp in the name of Seyit Mehmet on fol. 2a. Two ownership statements, one accompanied by two small stamps, one in black one in red ink, and the other by one larger stamp in black ink, in the name of Seyit İsmail [Nişadî?] from Aksaray on fol. 2a. Ownership signature in the name of Abdülhak, dated Shawwāl '38 (1138?, i.e. 1726?) on fol. 2a. Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
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