This codex contains the following five texts :. ff 1v-48r : The third chapter of Enisü'l-arifin by Hazarfenn Hüseyin Efendi;. ff 48v-53r : Miftahu'l-cenne, an ethical work by Ahmet İbn-i Mehmet Tevfiki, Feridunzade;. ff 53r-56v : A legal risale on the subject of vakıf (waqf), copied in 1272 AH (1855-56 CE) by Seyit Osman el-Tarsusi İbn-i Halil Hayri, ''one of the pupils of the Mufti of Tarsus'';. ff 56v-59v : Zafername-yi Buzurgmihr;. ff 60r-61r : Notes on the inflection (iᶜrāb) of Greek, Hebrew and Syriac proper names, written by the same copyist at the same date as text 3. The manuscript includes a gold unvan featuring stylized leaves on f 1v. No date is provided, but the manuscript was likely copied in the 19th century CE.
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or 6951
- Dates of Creation
- 19th century
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 5 texts 61 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 61 ff. Dimensions : 238 mm x 140 mm. Ruling : Text boxes in gold on ff 1v-2r, followed by text boxes in red thereafter. Script : Nestalik. Ink : Main text in black ink with red for titles and catchwords, gold at the start. Binding : British (?) brown leather binding with flap with gold borders featuring stylized plants, with the centre of each board filled with a leaf design in gold atop a pink and light purple cloudband design. There is considerable damage (water?) to the front board.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased by the British Museum from J. E. Géjou on 9 January 1909.