Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Dervishes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the spiritual path of the Sufis.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with some use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thin glazed paper with visible chain lines and watermarks.
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بو كتاب بيلك واكاه اولوك كيم دليل بدلا ودفتر عاشق وسير عارف ديرلر
• Explicit: اول اخر منم باطن ظاهر منم منصور ناصر منم كنج نهان بنده دير

Binding note

Quarter leather binding. Black paper embossed in flower pattern on covers. Brown leather on spine. Endleaves in dark blue and brown marbled paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership statement in the name of Mehmet Şukrî, the clerk of doctor Ibn Ismail, dated 1st of Ramaḍān 1291 (1874) and accompanied by his seal, on fol. 1a.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other title(s)

• Delil-i budala ve seyr-i âşık
• دليل بدلا وسير عاشق

OCLC

132688031

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