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This volume contains the following two texts :. (I) ff 1v-44r : Şerh-i Kaside-yi Meymune, an Ottoman Turkish commentary on Al-Qaṣīdat al-maymūnah (القصيدة الميمونة), a poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم, also known as al-Nuᶜmānīyah (النعمونية), by Abu Ḥanīfah al-Nuᶜmān ibn Thābit. The commentary, which is provided with a translation, was written by Şeyh Mehmet Said İbn-i İbrahim Filibevi, known as Kavalizade. This text is an autograph and is dated 1206 AH (1791-92 CE);. (II) ff 45v-120v : Navhatü'l-uşşak, a mystical mesnevi by Mehmet İbn-i Recep, called Da'i. This text was likely copied in the late 18th century CE.

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Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in January 1963.

For more on the original author of text I, see Brockelmann S.I, p. 287, xii.