19 lines per page. Written in a small taʻlīq in black ink. Text is written inside a frame made with gold leaf outlined in black ink, with columns and verses inside the frame also separated with gold leaf. Fol. 1b-2a have a foliage pattern in gold ink between the two columns inside the text frame, and fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) executed in gold leaf with blue, red, orange, green and white watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 1a has several short inscriptions, chiefly couplets of verse, one of them dated '228 (1813).
Incipit: حمد سزا ذاتكه اى كبريا نوع بشر ايليه مزلرادا
Black grained paper over pasteboard. Green leather on spine, decorated with small blind stamps of geometrical patterns, and one section colored in red. Endleaves in blue paper.
Language note
In Ottoman Turkish.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Other title(s)
ديوان سزائي
Title on lower edge of text block
Divan-i Sezaî
OCLC
137261486
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