A treatise on various types of invocation (zikr) and supplication (du‘ā), their merits, and Sufis and others who are said to have used them. The author mentions the titles of an important, probably royal, patron, but reveals neither the patron's name nor his own. The author mentions (f. 18v) that in the year 920/1514-15 he was in Damascus in the presence of Ustād al-‘Ulamā Muḥammad Qavvāṣ Tabrīzī. The date 18 Rabī‘ al-avval 937/9 November 1530 is mentioned within the text (f. 5r).

The plan of the work is outlined at the end of the preface, on f. 6r-v: it comprises the preface (f. 1r-6r); an introduction, Fātiḥat al-kitāb (6r-28r), discussing the forms of invocation associated wih particular renowned Sufis; Part 1, Mir’āt al-avval (sic) (28r-49v) is concerned with formulae of invocation, especially variations on the tahlīl; Part 2, Mir’āt al-sānī (49v-62v) discusses formulae of supplication (49v-62v); and a conclusion, Khātimat al-kitāb (no heading: 63r-70r), commenting on some quotations from spiritual authorities concerning esoteric formulae. The whole of f. 55r is devoted to a table containing the Divine Names written in black or red.

Colophon on f. 70, which is at present attached to the rear endpaper.

The present manuscript is slightly incomplete: f. 69 is severely damaged, about one-third of the text being lost, and very little of the text on the final folio is legible.

Other contents: front flyleaf, owner’s note on title, copyist, and former owner.