[Collection of Sufi writings and prayers]
Contributors: Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258; Kūrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl, 1410 or 1411-1487 or 1488; Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575; Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274; Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240; ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166; Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf, active 1875, associated name; Delacorte, Valerie, 1914-2011, donor; Delacorte, George T. (George Thomas), 1893-1991, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Turkish Manuscripts; Sufism; Early works to 1800; Islam; Prayers and devotions
Other titles: Khawāṣṣ Ayat al-Kursī.
Description: Collection of texts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. After the first work, a large portion of the manuscript is prayers attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī with other, additional prayers and religious poetry. Main texts are copied in at least two hands with notes in additional hands.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 11 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, yellow with blue and red foliate finials (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in two styles: gold, black, red (f. 1v-143r, 162v-164v), single red (f. 143v-161v); gold roundels with orange and blue dots punctuate the text; other simple headpieces in gold lined with black (f. 55v, 76v, 77v, 82v, 112v, 123v, 135v); diagram in black and red (f. 30v), table in black (f. 121v); rubrications in red, some headers set into gold bands (for example, f. 30r).

Origin: A transmission note is dated 1212 AH (1797 CE) (f. 71r).

Stamp with the name ʻUthmān (stamps, f. 147v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 477.

Note signed Muḥammad Amīn Yūsuf of a Shādhilī Dergāh and dated Ramaḍān 1292 (1875 CE) laid in.

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Gift of Valerie Delacorte in Memory of George T. Delacorte, 2007.

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; large, central medallion with painted foliate fill and a frame; gilded, inset medallion on flap with frame; bright blue paper pastedowns and endleaves; spine is reinforced with brown leather.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-53v: Manāzil quṭb al-ʻārifīn wa manāzil aṣḥāb al-sālikīn; title: 2. f. 55v-112r: [Prayers] / Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Shādhilī; title: 3. f. 112v-120v: Risālah; title: 4. f. 123v-135r: [Prayer]; title: 5. f. 135v-: Wird / Sayyid Yaḥyá; title: 6. f. 140r-141v: Wird Mūllá al-Kūrānī; title: 7. f. 142r-: Duʻāʹnāmah / Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī; title: 8. f. 143v-161v: [Prayers] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArabī al-Khātimī al-Ṭāʼī al-Andalusī; title: 9. f. 162v-165r: Duʻāʼ sharīf / Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī; title: 10. f. 166v-167r: Khawāṣṣ Ayat al-Kursī; title: 11. f. 167v-169r: Munājāt / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī; title: 12. Ḥizb / Muḥyī al-Dīn al-ʻArabī; title: 13. f. 171v-173v: Duʻāʼ al-Fātiḥah maʻ al-basmalah / al-Shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn; title: 14. f. 173v-174v: Ṣalāt ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; title: 15. f. 175r-177v: Tables and notes