Or 16278

This volume contains a prayer book comprised of Qur'anic sureler and texts for supplicatory prayers. Because some of the contents are unusual, as is the decoration of the volume, the contents are described below in some detail:

f 1r : decorative frontispiece with mainly stylized floral ornamentation;

f 1v Fatihe(Sura 1);

f 2r Bakare(Sura 2,) first verses;

f 2v Ya Sin (Sura 36);

f 13r Dua Ya Sin;

f 14r el-Fatih (Sura 48);

f 23r Tebarek (Sura 67);

f 28v en-Neba’ (Sura 78);

f 29r a verse omitted and added in margin;

f 31r et-Tekasür;

f 31v el-İhlas (Sura 112), el-Mu‘avvizeteyn (Suras 113-114);

f 33r Dua hatim el-Kur'an;

f 36r Şerh-i Kadeh-i mübarek;

f 40v Mübarek Kadeh-i ‘azim (a longer supplication);

f 52r Divine Names (table);

ff 54v-55r the Sanctuaries (Haremeyn) of Mekke and Medine (including illustrations);

f 55v Şerh-i Hilye, Hilye-i Hazret-i Muhammed;

f 57r Hilye-i Hazret-i Ebü Bekir (description of Ebü Bekir);

f 57v Hilye-i Hazret-i Ömer (description of Ömer);

f 58r Hilye-i Resulullah (Description of the Prophet);

f 59r Hilyet-i Hazret-i Osman (description of Osman);

f 59v Hilye-i Ali;

f 60r Mühr-i Hatem ül-Enbiya (Seal of the Seal of Prophethood);

f 60v Şerh-i Dua-i Kenzü'l-Arş;

f 63v Kenzü'l-Arş (Treasury of the Throne, a supplication here attributed to the Prophet);

f 87v Şerh-i Dua-i Çevirgil;

f 89r Çevirgil-i Şerif (supplications, attributed to the Prophet Solomon, to win somebody’s favour);

f 95v Bab-i mühimm bir hacet için (for particular circumstances of need);

f 97v Bab bir kimse;

f 98r Bab-i Eger dilersin (to make a person fall in love with one);

f 99r Şerh-i Ayat-i tis'e (nine Qur’ānic verses allegedly commended to Ali and other Companions by the Prophet; but ten and seven are also mentioned in the explanatory text, after which only seven are given);

f 105r Şerh-i Dua-i Nur (a supplication to be placed in the shroud of the dead);

f 106r Dua-i [Nur-i] Şerif;

f 109r Tilism-i Kılıc-ı refi‘ (amulets for swords and rifles);

f 110v Tilism-i Kulunç (an amulet against snakes, associated with Seyyid Aḥmed ür-Rifā‘īand Sa‘d-ed-dīn el-Cebavī);

f 111r Tilism-i Ümm üs-sibyan, 111v an amulet for difficulties in pregnancy;

f 112v Nazar için (against the Evil Eye);

ff 113r-115v invocations for various ailments, with individual headings;

ff 116r-v prayer for daily provision;

ff 117r-120r invocations for various ailments, with individual headings;

ff 120v prayers for protection against jinn and demons in wild places;

f 121v Kurban duası, supplication for when making a sacrifice;

f 122v Seyyid-i İstiğfar, a prayer for forgiveness (this is not the prayer of the Prophet traditionally known by that title);

f 124v Leyle-i Berat dua-i şerifi (supplication for the middle night of Şaban);

f 124v Leyle-i Kadır gecesi okunacak dua (supplication for the Night of Power in late Ramazan);

f 125r Bab Dua-i Enam-i şerif (a general supplication).

f 126r Colophon.

The text contains various illustrations in vivid colour, as well as copious illumination in unvans and at the start and end of the text. Illumination frequently includes floral motifs, except in the section of the 99 names of God, in which it is purely geometrical.

The manuscript was completed on 27 Zulhicce 1310 (12 July 1893 CE) by Seyit Hafız Hüseyin, a refugee from Crimea, as mentioned in the colophon.