Hizb al-azam wa al-wird al-afham

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1v-85r; Title from fol.3r, 78v; Name of the author from fol.2r; Undated, probably 19th century; Contains prayers, salawat, names of Allah and names of the Prophet Muhammad; It is stated on fol 80r-80v that, This book has many commentaries, but he has summarized it; Includes two addition (fol.79r-85r), first one (in Turkish) is about the virtues of reading this Hizb, according the Ebi el-Hasan Şadi.
Includes additional notes and corrections relating the main text, on the margin.
Layout: Written in 11 lines per page, one column in gold, black and red borders.
Script: Naskh script, fully vocalized, black ink with with headers in black, white and red, some words in red.
Decoration: Illuminated unwan, borders, cüz gülü, surebaşı, hatime, dots (durak) with gold and color.
Binding: Brown leather binding with flap; Decorated with shamsa and köşebent (cornerpiece) design, borders; Edges and spine worn; Spine repaired with paper.
Stains; a few repairs and wormholes, with loss of some letters; Due to oxydization of the gold borders, the paper has split in places; It appears that some words were deleted for correction purposes.
With watermark; Catchwords present.
Incipit (1v-2r): بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم - الحمد لله اللذی جعالنا من لطالبین - ... اما بعد - فيقول العبد الراجى والداعى مغفرة ربه البارئ ظل سلطان محمد القارى ...
Explicit (78r): ... وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Colophon (78v): ... تمت الحزب الاعظم والورد الافخم الحمد لله على التمام ...

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Prayer-Islam, Arabic manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey

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