Extent: 196 leaves : paper ; 206 x 142 (145 x 80) mm bound to 206 x 150 mm.
Note:
Ms. composite codex. Title supplied by the cataloger (after text no. 2 in the collection). Ms. additions: the main texts are interspersed with numerous ms. additions, including accounting lists and calculations (inside upper cover, fol. 1a, 22a-b etc.), prayers, a short inscription on mysterious properties of letters accompanied by a talisman table (on fol. 98a), invocations of ʻAlī (fol. 131b-132a), and short texts (fol. 74a, 147a, and the one on fol. 98b-99a). Texts vary in terms of style, hands and paper. They are all written in black ink with some of them using red for rubrication. They are mostly written in small to very small and casual nastaʻlīq, and a smaller number are in naskh, some vocalised. Number of lines per page ranges from 6 (in poetry, e.g. text 6) to 25 in prose texts. Most texts have catchwords (on the verso of each leaf). Paper... Origin: Text 6 is dated 20th of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1002 (1593) -- colophon (fol. 61b). Text 9 was copied by Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Badr al-Dīn ibn Zayn al-Dīn ... [?] al-Shāfiʻī, in Dār al-Shifāʼ in Miṣr [Cairo?], and was completed on the 19th of Muḥarram 1046 (1636) -- colophon (fol. 78b). Text 14 was copied by Selim Nutkî, a scribe at the Zaǧra-yi Atik (Eski Zagra or Stara Zagora... Ownership signature in the name of Mustafa el-Kutubî bin el-hac Ahmet, a scribe at the Cisr-i Ergene Courthouse, accompanied by his stamp, is found on the first page of most of the texts throughout the ms.
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