Extent: 236 leaves : paper ; 197 x 115 (140 x 55) mm. bound to 200 x 120 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 7a. Full title at the beginning of the text on fol. 7b. Copy completed on the 1st of Muḥarram 1022 (1613) -- colophon (fol. 232a). 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals and in pencil in Western numerals. Glazed European paper. Ms. additions: substantial additions before and after the main text, most of them on the same subject and in the same hand as the main text, and include: 1. text on fol. 1b, whose headings start with "ḥamd lughawī", "shukr lughawī" etc. and end with "al-thanāʾ bi-al-ʻaks"; 2. text on ff. 2b-3a, entitled "Baḥth istithnāʾ wa-mufarragh", preceeded by several lines of verse in Ottoman; 3. text on fol. 3b on "al-juhl al-murakkab", accompanied by other short paragraphs on the same subject; 4. fol. 4a has a chronogram of Jāmī's death in Persian; 5. ff. 4b-5b have a table of contents and an untitled text commenting on Jāmī's work (mainly on the contents of the first few pages); some of it on fol. 5b illegible due to water damage; 5. ff. 6a-7a and ff. 232b-233a have numerous short inscriptions, again on language-related subjects, some of it in different hands, and some are illegible due to water damage; 6. ff. 234a-234b: Risālah-ʾi waḍʻīyah / li-Mūlá ʻAḍud al-Millah wa-al-Dīn [ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī (d. 1355?)], in a later hand. 7. fol. 236b has a drawing of a protective talisman with an explanation in Ottoman on how to make it and its usage. Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
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