Extent: 295 leaves: paper ; 253 x 155 (183 x 85) mm. bound to 253 x 165 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 6a. Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single line in red. Ḥāshiyah on the margin attributed to Saʻdī Çelebi and others. Light cream paper, glossy, with chain lines visible (in groups of three). Table of contents on fol. 5b. Several inscriptions on fol. 3b-6a, including verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish and kabīkaj. Title on... Decoration: Basmalah written in white outlined in black on a gold ground with scroll in black in a cartouche. The cartouche is outlined in blue ink and is set on a ground left plain, defined by a frame in blue and gold (fol. 6b). Collation: Paper, fol. 295 ; i (fly-leaf with inscriptions; European paper; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 12 (later addition with inscriptions; European paper) 2-3010 ii (fly-leaves; European paper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; traces of quire numbering, apparently cut off due to the trimming of the pages (see "20" on fol. 194a). Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Numrah 15" and "Ṣāḥib-i sharīf". Origin: The date 963 H. is written at the end of the copy ("tanmīq", with colophon partly in Ottoman Turkish, fol. 292a) Ownership statement in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad mudarris in the Madrasat Shāh Sulṭān, with almond shaped seal, and impression of another seal (circular with inscription reading: "al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī") on fol. 2a. Two impresions of an oval seal on fol. 6a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
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