A treatise on the Nakşibandiyye order of dervishes, composed in 1197 (1782-3) -- see end of text on fol. 153b. The work includes an illuminated graphic presentation of a Nakşibandi şecere (chain of authority) on fol. 52b-67a. The text ends on fol. 153b, and is then followed by excerpts of poetry by Şeyhi (inside the same outlined text frames and in the same hand as the main text) on fol. 154b-169a.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 4b.
Copied by the Nakşibandi Şeyh İsmail of Osman Pazarı and completed on 23 Jumādá al-Ūlá [?] 1243 (1827) -- colophon (fol. 153b).
17 lines per page. Written in a medium small ruqʻah with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with some use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. On fol. 4b-5a the frame is double with green watercolor between the two frames and all is further outlined in one line of red ink. A small gold leaf ʻunwān on fol. 4b. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Pagination in Arabic numerals in black ink (incomplete). Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Fol. 2b-3a have a table of contents in black ink, inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink and ruled in red ink. Fol. 169b-172a have the gold leaf text frames, but are left blank. Date 21 of Ṣafar 1292 (1875) on fol. 4a (in same hand and ink as in the table of contents and pagination).
Illuminations:
1. Fol. 4b-5a: illuminated text frames consisting of double gold leaf frames with the space between them filled with green watercolor and the whole outlined in one line of red ink. Small scalloped edged ʻunwān in gold leaf on fol. 4b.
2. Illuminated graphic presentation of a Nakşibandi şecere: begins with 2 illuminated panels on fol. 52b-53a consisiting of gold leaf frames outlined in black and red ink, floral corner pieces in gold ink and green, orange, purple and blue watercolors, and central circles in gold leaf, purple and green watercolors, with caligraphic inscriptions (in large naskh in black ink) of "Allāh" and "Muḥammad" inside each of the circles; continues from fol. 53b to 67a, in the form of linked circles in gold leaf and either left blank or filled with yellow, green, blue or red watercolors, with the names of each of the personages in the chain written in calligraphic inscriptions inside the circles (in large naskh in black ink), ending on fol. 67a with Şeyh İsmail Efendi of Osman Pazarı in the final circle (the copyist of the ms. - see colophon note above).
Incipit: حمد سپاس وشكر لا يقاس اول حبيب حسن خصال واول جليل جميل المتعال ... اما بعد بو قليل الطاعه وكثير البداعه منلا زاده شيخى الشيخ سليمان كوستنديلى
Explicit: وانواع زيب وزينت ايله مزيندر اللهم يسر لنا بفضلك وكرمك يا ارحم الراحمين ويا اكرم الاكرمين تمت بعون الله تعالى سنه سبعه وتسعين مأية والف
Binding note
Three quarter leather with envelope flap. Green silk on covers and the envelope flap. Red leather on spine, fore edge flap, and around edges of covers and the envelope flap. The leather sections of the binding decorated with (faded) gold guilloche and several gold fillets. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in green silk. Flyleaves in light olive paper sprinkled in gold.
Language note
In Ottoman Turkish.
OCLC
163587221
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