Ms. codex. Title supplied by the cataloger. 18 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a frame outlined with four lines, in yellow, green, red and blue, with verses separated from the main text in sections ruled in red ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, orange and black watercolors, and the text frame is in gold leaf with one red and one blue line around it. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink starts on fol. 2. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines. Incipit: رب شرح لي صدري ويسر لي امري واحل عقدة من لساني ويفقهو اقوالي Explicit (fol. 215b): اجرلر بو له لر وجمله ثوابلر ندن بو مصيبت نامه مؤلفنه تصدق قلوب بو ثوابي دخي موجب مزيد حسنات بله لر
Green leather with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers and the envelope flap consisting of multiple gold rolls and fillets, with small rosetta stamps forming corner pieces. Gold stamped 'branch with flowers' motif on upper and lower covers. Gold tooled panel design on fore edge flap, made with fillets and rosetta stamps. Endleaves and lining to envelope flap in yellow embossed glazed paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in green leather.
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 12b. Other titles from different places in the ms., including fol. 13a and fol. 322b (see end of text). Physical description: 20 lines per page. Written in a casual hand, in a medium-sized informal ruqʻah in black ink, with use of blue ink for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Cream wove paper. Fol. 2b-10a have a list of contents in the same hand as the main text. Fol. 10b-11a contain a key to the meanings of letters used in the text, entitled "Miftah-i huruf-i Câvidân-i dürr-i yetim". A short paragraph on fol. 12a. The two colophons by the scribe on fol. 326a are followed by a page of verses on fol. 326b in a later hand, and a calligraphic drawing of a human figure on fol. 327a. Origin: Copied by Akçehisarî Derviş Süleyman in 1222 (1807-8) -- colophon (fol. 326a). The colophon is followed by another short selection of verses, added by the scribe in 1273 (1856-7). Incipit: الحمد لله الذى له ملك السموآت والارض ولم يتخذ ولدًا ولم يكن له شريك في الملك ... بعد آز حمد وثناء ح ق عز شانه ايطالب اسرارى Explicit: چون مى بالد ومى بالد وخواهد باليد يعنى نيجه بيور وبويور ودخى بيوك اولسه كرك الحمد لله الذى ذهب عنا الحزن ان ان ربنا الغفور شكور الذى احلنا دار المقامه من فضله ... وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصل على جميع الانبياء والمرسلين تم الكتاب الالهى الفضلى الازلى الابدى الحمد لله رب العالمين ... شد تمام از لطف حق اين نامهء در يتيم
Brown leather over pasteboard with blind-tooled panel design on covers consisting of a simple frame made with blind fillets, foliage stamps along the inner borders of the frame and six tear-shaped floral stamps inside the frame.
Caption title. Text composed in 1020 [1611 or 1612]; a chronogram gives date of completion as 1023 [1614 or 1615]. Front free endpaper: "Kitab-ı Gülistan-ı Şemail min teʾlif-i Âli-yi Şirin kelâm-i tercüme-yi hilye Şerif aliye efzal..." Ms. has 113 leaves of glazed paper measuring 242 x 154 mm.; text area, ruled in gold with black and blue outlines, measures 148-160 x 90 mm. Text is on f. 1b-113b and is vocalized. F. 1b has illuminated ʻunwān; headings and keywords in red or gold. Binding is pasteboard with envelope flap covered in brown leather with stamped and gilded center medallions and borders.
