The first folios of this manuscript is decorated with designs in gold that
served as a model for the decoration of Qur’āns copied in Egypt during the 14th century.
The Turkish version was written, according to a manuscript addition in the
Berlin copy of Ḥajjı̄ Khalı̄fa, 1609-1657, about
710
A marginal note in a museum copy of Haj. Khal., Or. 3144, f. 976, ascribes it to
a later writer Ṣāfī Naṣūḥ al- Shahīr Bimaṭarāqī, d. 1533-4صافی نصوح
الشهیر بمطراقی, whose translation, divided into two
volumes, was entitled Majmaʻ al-tawārīkh (مجمع التواریخ) (see 258), but the archaic style of the translation points to an
earlier period
The present volume contains only the latter half of this work
