AN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT IN TURKISH, BAHARI'S FARRUKHNAMA
Tira, Izmir, Ottoman Turkey, dated Safar 1290 AH (April 1873 AD), signed Darwish Nafisi bin Muhammad bin Aida (?) Al-Mawlawi Al-Amasi

AN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT IN TURKISH, BAHARI'S FARRUKHNAMA
Tira, Izmir, Ottoman Turkey, dated Safar 1290 AH (April 1873 AD), signed Darwish Nafisi bin Muhammad bin Aida (?) Al-Mawlawi Al-Amasi

Turkish poetic manuscript on paper, 171ff., 13ll. of black ink naskh script to the page, the opening bifolio and title page within red hemistich column rules, chapter headings also in red, diacritic marks in black, catchwords, the colophon signed by Darwish Nafisi bin Muhammad bin Aida (?) Al-Mawlawi Al-Amasi, in Tira (near Izmir), Badamiya area, at noon on a Tuesday early in the month of Safar 1290 AH (April 1873 AD), in a dark brown blind-tooled binding, the folio 20.4cm x 14.4cm.

Dimensions: the folio 20.4cm x 14.4cm