This volume is a codex containing the following texts:. (I) ff 1v-10r : Risālat al-Malāmatiyah (رسالة الملامتية), a tract in Arabic on the Malāmatiyah sect, copied in 1039 AH (1629-30 CE), followed by a note in Arabic from a book of counsel (f 7v), another Arabic note (ff 8r-10r), notes in Ottoman Turkish on various subjects (f 9r) and some in Arabic (ff 9v-10r);. (II) ff 10v-11r : Various notes, the first being a cure for jaundice written in Ottoman Turkish (f 10v);. (III) ff 11v-13v : Explanations in Arabic of the Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ;. (IV) ff 14v-17r : Notes on the devotions of the Nakşibendiye dervishes, copied by Osman İbn-i Veli in 1043 AH (1633-34 CE);. (V) ff 17v-21v : Risālah-yi Asrār al-Anvār (رسالۀ اسرار الانوار), a tract on Sufism in Persian by Aḥmad bin-i Muḥammad bin-i Aḥmad, copied in 1043 AH (1633-34 CE);. (VI) ff 22v-25r : An Arabic tract on marriage and other topics followed by Manāhij al-ṭāʾifīn wa masālik al-zāʾirīn (مناهج الطائفين ومسالك الزائرين), a tract in Arabic by Muḥammad Rafīᶜ al-Shīrwānī, copied in 1043 AH (1633-34 CE) by the same copyist as the text above;. (VII) ff 26v-28r : Arabic notes on days propitious for certain events, and al-Qawwāf fī'l-thalāth (القواف في الثلاث), also in Arabic;. (VIII) ff 30r-106r : Tuḥfat al-dhākirīn (تحفة الذاكرين), a work on forms of prayer with Ottoman Turkish commentary by Menla Vecdi, called Nuh Efendi, son of Emir Mustafa, Mirliva bi-Mısır. The text was copied by Osman İbn-i Veli el-Urmavi in 1045 AH (1635-36 CE);. (IX) ff 106v-126v : Various notes and prayers in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish (ff 106v-108r), followed by Risale-i Rumi Efendi (ff 108v-126v), an Ottoman Turkish tract on Islamic doctrine, in a different hand from the rest of the manuscript. The undated tracts are likely from the 17th century CE as well.
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- GB 59 Or 7555
- Dates of Creation
- 17th century
- Language of Material
- Arabic Persian Turkish
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- 9 texts 126 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 126 ff. Dimensions : 195 mm x 125 mm. Script : Nestalik (texts I-VIII); nesih (text IX).
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