Abstract: A commentary on the divan of Ḥāfiẓ.Binding note: Half leather with envelope flap. Glazed ochre paper with an embossed panel design on covers, consisting of a rectangle with four foliage pattern corner pieces and a central mandorla with pendants. Yellow paper with an embossed mandorla on the envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and around the edges of the envelope flap. The binding is substantially damaged and very fragile.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a (a later addition in purple crayon).Copied by Molla İbrahim bin el-hac Mehmet Remmah Zade, from Antakya, and completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1164 (1751) -- colophon (fol. 148a).21-23 lines per page. Written in a very casual small to medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. From fol. 1 to fol. 42, the text starts off in one style, with written area more narrow and with more lines per page, after which it changes to less lines and the text is inside a frame outlined in a single line of red ink. After fol. 42 the paper changes too. The script in the first section is slightly larger, but the hand is not substantially different and could still be that of the scribe of the rest of the ms. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks (some of the paper towards the end of the ms has frame-ruled margins). Several short inscriptions on front pastedown and fol. ia. An oblitarated ownership statement and an obliterated oval stamp on fol. 1a.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي حفظ الذكر عن تحريف ريب المنون كما قال انا نحن نزلنا الذكر وانا له لحافظون ... اما بعد بو سروري شكسته دلExplicit: ضميري صوفى براجع در يعنى فلك اوينى
Abstract: An Arabic commentary on the Gulistān of Saʻdī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Shīrāzī, 691 1291/2.Binding note: Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled eding and blind-stamped mandorlas with pendants on cover, flap, and along the spine.Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 299 ; catchwords.Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition, some staining.Layout: 19 lines per page.Marginal notes and glosses. In the introduction the author states that he composed his work for the Sultan Muṣṭafá ibn Sulaymān I, 960 1553. On the page before the first and the two folios preceding are several verses of poetry in Turkish and Persian, the autograph of an owner, a table of contents, a story about the caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, four Turkish seal impressions, another illegible one and some statements in Turkish. After the colophon and on the folio following are several verses of poetry and some statements in Turkish.Ms. codex.Origin: According to colophon copied 8 Muḥarram 1058 by Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb in Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Bā Yazīd (fol. 298b).Title from bottom edge of MS.Colophon: تم تنميق هذا الکتاب عن يد الفقير محمد الخطيب بجامع بايزيد خان عليه الرحمة والرضوان قصبته امکرمان وقت صبح اليوم الثامن من المحرم الحرام المنتظم لسنة ثمان وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحيةIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعلني من علماء البيان
Abstract: Second part of a Turkish commentary on the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ, beginning with the letter ʻayn to the end of the Dīvān.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; marbled paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from lower edge. Title given by a later hand on fol. 1b erroneously reads "Hafız Divani tercümesi."Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in naskh-nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Damp staining around margins. In good condition.Origin: Original text completed the evening of 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 966 H 6 September 1559; this copy completed at the end of Jumādá II 1020 H September 1611 by Hacı Abdürrahim Semerkandî (fol. 233b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى عىن اعىان الدىن لاجراء عىن العلم و ىنبوع الىقىن