Description
Summary:A collection consisting of İsmail Ankaravî's Minhac ül-fukarâ, a couple of short risales, and poetry
Item Description:Collation: Paper ; catchwords
Description: Written chiefly in very small nastaʻlīq (except for texts 6-9 which have larger nastaʻlīq) in black ink with use of red ; paper varies, fol. 1-2 and 122-127 on light purple stained paper ; texts 6-9 have substantial water damage to the paper and some of the text is illegible
Layout: 20-25 lines per page
Ms. composite codex
Origin: [Minhac ül-fukarâ] Copied by Derviş Mehmet ibn Hasan, from the town of Livadiye (Crimea), in the Mevlevi tekke in Damascus ("fī al-Ḥaram al-Shām fī al-Mawlīyah al-Firdawsīyah"), and completed around the middle of Shawwāl 1035 (1626) -- colophon (fol. 116a). Only the main text, Minhac ül-fukarâ, is dated; of the rest, texts 6-9 are on same paper and probably of a similar date, while the texts at the very beginning and the very end of the ms. are a later addition
Title from fol. 5a
Physical Description:127 leaves : paper ; 198 x 146 (158 x 105) mm. bound to 198 x 148 mm