[Mecmua].

This volume contains the following five works in both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish :. (I) ff 1v-26r : Fatḥ bāb al-isʿād fī sharḥ bānat suʿād (فتح باب الاسعاد في شرح بانت سعاد), poetry in Arabic by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad Qārī al-Harawī (died 1605 or 1606 CE);. (II) ff 27v-47v : Qaṣīdah al-tarjīʿīyah (قصيدة الترجيعة), an Arabic-language poem by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq Ṭanṭarānī, also known as Surayyā (active in the 11th century CE), in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم. This is accompanied by a commentary in Arabic and additional verses that paraphrase the original in Ottoman Turkish;. (III) ff 48v-62v : Sharḥ bānat suʿād (شرح بانت سعاد), a poem in Arabic;. (IV) ff 64v-67r : Ḥāshiyat ʿalá al-kawākib al-durrīyah (حاشية على الكواكب الدرية), a poem in Arabic by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Shīrāzī;. (V) ff 68v-96v : An Ottoman Turkish commentary on an Arabic qaṣīdah lāmiyah (قصيدة لامية) by Kaᶜb ibn Zuhayr. The commentator, whose name was Abdurrahman, states in his preface that he was attached to the Imperial Has Oda. He completed his work at a place between Belgrade and Vidin, and dedicated it to one Hasan Efendi of Vidin (contemporary Bulgaria). This manuscript was copied in the late 17th century CE.

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Purchased by the British Library from Osman Bey Mevlevi in March 1973.

For a more detailed catalogue entry of the Arabic texts, see Current cataloguing.