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This volume contains the following contents :

(I) f 1v : An Arabic prayer and a gazel by İzzet ;

(II) f 2r : An Ottoman Turkish İlahi ;

(III) ff 2v-4r : Ḥikāyat-i Sulṭān al-ᶜārifīn Bāyazīd-i Bisṭāmī (حکایت سلطان العارفین بایزید بسطامی), a Persian poem ;

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(IV) ff 5r-v : Another ilahi and some notes on various books ;

(V) f 6r : An Arabic poem ;

(VI) ff 6v-7r : A Persian poem about asceticism ;

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(VII) f 8v : A Persian poem ;

(VIII) f 9r : A note in Ottoman Turkish about treating an illness of the ear ;

(IX) f 9v : A verse by Şems-i Tabrizi ;

(X) ff 10r-11r : Arabic notes and prayers ;

(XI) ff 11v-14r : A Persian commentary on some of the poetry of Celaleddin Rumi ;

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(XII) ff 15r-v : An Arabic poem ;

(XIII) ff 16v-29v : Parables in Persian ;

(XIV) ff 29v-33v : Acabü'l-acayıp, by Manyasoğlu ;

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(XV) ff 34v-37r : Notes on diet and other health and hygiene issues according to what the sages of both the Hellenistic and Islamic traditions have prescribed ;

(XVI) ff 39r-41r : A dialogue between the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and Fatima ;

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(XVII) f 43r : Notes in Arabic ;

(XVIII) ff 43v-61r : Portions of a commentary on the Qur'an in Persian written by Mubārak Fayẓullāh Sinānī, as well as a collection of Aḥādīth in Persian and anecdotes of various holy persons. The margins (ff 47v-61r) carry a Persian tract on eschatology entitled Rāḥat al-qulūb (راحت القلوب) ;

(XIX) ff 61v-89r : A story in Persian that does not have a title ;

(XX) ff 89v-92r : A mystical and devotional tract in Persian ;

(XXI) ff 92v-127r : An Arabic tract entitled Baḥr al-kalām (بحر الكلام) by al-Nasafī and dated 1127 AH (1715 CE) ;

(XXII) ff 127r-134r : Arabic extracts ;

(XXIII) ff 134r-137r : Risālat dāfiᶜ al-mufīdīn (رسالة دافع المفيدين) ;

(XXIV) Waṣiyat (وصية) of ᶜabd al-Qādir Gilānī in Arabic, followed by Faḍā’il al-fuqarā' (فضائل الفقراء) also in Arabic ;

(XXV) ff 140v-142r : Risālat al-ṭarīq (رسالة الطريق), a Sufi treatise by Necmüddin Kübra ;

(XXVI) ff 142v-169r : Tracts and other pieces in Arabic ;

(XXVII) ff 169v-171r : Ahdname-yi Sultan Murad-i evel berayi Hacci ve Gazi Evrenus ;

(XXVIII) ff 171v-173v : On the prayers to be said on special occasions (in Ottoman Turkish) ;

(XXIX) ff 174r-209v : Notes and other tracts in Arabic ;

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(XXX) ff 210v-219v : Menakıb-i Emir Sultan, in Ottoman Turkish ;

(XXXI) f 220r : A note in Arabic ;

(XXXII) ff 220v-222r : Şemailname, a tract on physiognomy ;

(XXXIII) f 222v : A collection of names of Mevali, Kadılar, and Kaziaskerler.

Persian parables are further interspersed among the other texts over the sections ff 40v-61r and ff 174v-200r.

The pieces in this volume were written in a variety of hands, probably in the 18th century CE.