of Süleymaniye in Istanbul is 280 and 281. The manuscript originally belonged to the Amcazade Library (also called Amucazade), named after the vizier Husayn Pasha ibn Hasan Agha. Hasan Agha was the brother of the vizier Muhammad Pasha, known as Köprülü, as stated in the endowment seal.
The manuscript comprised six volumes, as indicated by an ownership inscription on the title page of the first volume in the handwriting of Sibt Ibn al-‘Ajmī (753–841 AH). It reads: “This volume and the five following it belong to Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad ibn Khalīl, Sibt Ibn al-‘Ajmī al-Halabī. May Allah pardon him (sic) and his parents. Amen.” At the beginning of the second volume, he likewise stated that “this volume, the first preceding it, and the four following it belong to him.”
The first volume contains 234 leaves and the second 265, with 17 or 18 lines per page. The manuscript is written in a clear naskh hand, but the copyist recorded neither his name nor the copying date at the end of these two volumes; perhaps he reserved them for the end of the sixth. The manuscript was collated against its exemplar, as indicated by the few collation progress notes and corrections in its margins.
The first volume is complete and ends with the conclusion of the author’s discussion of what opens the heart. The second begins with the Prophet’s practice regarding fasting (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). It ends with the author’s words at the close of the chapter on the Prophet’s conduct toward his allies and followers (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): “Such was his conduct toward the inhabitants of the earth: humans and jinn, believers and unbelievers” (3/189). After this sentence, the copyist wrote: “And Allah knows best. End of the second volume ... Praise be to Allah, Lord of all worlds, and may Allah bless Muhammad, his family, and his Companions, and grant them peace.” Someone scraped away the passage represented by the ellipsis—two and a half lines in which the copyist described the ensuing discussion of military campaigns and expeditions in the third volume. He erased it to give a prospective buyer the impression that the manuscript was complete in two volumes.