Extent: 181 leaves : paper ; 215 x 140 (168 x 85) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm.
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Ms. composite codex. Title from fol. 1a. Collation: Paper ; catchwords. Layout: 21-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold or red. Description: Written in a very elegant small nastaʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated. Decoration: The text is within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. On folios 2b and 3a there is an additional wider frame in gold leaf and fol. 2b has a large illuminated head piece beautifully executed in gold leaf with blue, green, red, purple and orange watercolors. Folios 105b and 106a frame-ruled in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 105b has an illuminated head piece executed in... Origin: [Tufan-i marifet şerhi] Copied in Istanbul by Halid el-Halidî el-Nakşibendi el-Urmafî [?], under the guidance of Seyyid Mehmet Nazif Efendi, and completed on the 15h of Shawwāl 1261(colophon, fol. 104a) -- [Mecalis-i Mevleviyye] Copied in the Galata Mevlevihane in Thessaloniki, by Derviş Sabri Mevlevi, and completed on the 18th of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1245 (colophon, fol. 180a). Large circular ownership stamp on fol. 2a, in the name of Ḥusayn Ḥasanī, [1]265 (1848-49). Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
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