Title from opening page. Tail edge: Ḥasan Çelebi (حسن چلبي).
Colophon indicates manuscript was copied by Dervīş bin Muṣṭafá (درويش بن مصطفي) in Istanbul in H. 1011/1603.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single columns of 23 lines. Catchword on each verso.
Script: Nasta'līq and ta'līq in two hands.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece and text frames throughout, rubrication.
Binding: Flap binding, gold-tooled inlaid central mandorla with pendants on covers and gold-tooled inlaid central mandorla on flap, gold-tooled frames over covers and flap, rebacked. Manuscript was rebound, with trimming of marginalia.
Contemporary foliation, with modern f. 2a numbered 1, f. 3a numbered 2, and so on.
Contemporary annotations (f. 1a) including prayers in Arabic, poetry excerpts, title and author notes. Unread note in unidentified modern hand (f. 1a).
Accompanied by: two bibliographical notes in English, as well as one in German bibliographical information provided by Prof. Dr. M. Sobernheim, Berlin, 1915 November 10 (3 leaves).
In Ottoman Turkish.