A collection of texts on a wide variety of subjects, including tobacco, palmistry, and physiognomy, followed by a formulary of Turkish letters and documents.
Notes
Ms. codex.
On spine: Label reading "880" in Arabic script.
Physical description: Fol. 1-35 (in Arabic and Persian) written in naskh in black; fol. 36-51 (in Ottoman Turkish) written upside-down in ruqʻah in black flecked with gold; on modern paper. Headings overlined; supplications vocalized. Catchwords. Text 4 illustrated with charts; blank spaces presumably left for illustrations but never filled in. Insert between fol. 2-3. Fol. 36a, 41a, 50b-51a blank. Slight dampstaining in lower margin.
Origin: Fol. 1-35 in the hand of al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Anqarawī. Texts dated as follows:
Text 1: 17 Shawwāl 1295 H. [14 October 1878] (fol. 3a).
Text 3: 1295 H. [1878] (fol. 10b).
Text 4: 27 Dhī al-Ḥijjah 1295 H. [22 December 1878] (fol. 25b).
Text 5: 16 Muḥarram 1296 H. [10 January 1879] (fol. 35b).
Binding note
Half leather with paste paper covers in green, yellow, and orange; chartreuse pastedowns.
Language note
Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish
Contents
1. fol. 1a-3a: Risālah fī khawāṣṣ al-tutun wa-aṣl manshaʼ[ihi] wa-mujarrabātih / Shaʻbān ibn Isḥāq al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Jānī al-Isrāʼīlī. Copied from a copy in the handwriting of ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nabulusī (d. 1731). Arabic translation of a Spanish treatise on the medicinal properties of tobacco.
2. fol. 3b-4a: [Account of a session with ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī]. In Persian.
3. fol. 4b-10b: Sharḥ Duʻāʼ al-sayf[ī] al-maʻrūf bi-Ḥirz al-yamānī lil-ʻAlī [sic]. Commentary on a supplication attributed to ʻAlī, presented in the form of a story about the Sufi Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Andalusī (10th cent.?), followed by the duʻāʼ itself as well as other supplications.
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