Durr al-asrār : manuscript, [between 1855 and 1868].

Commentary on the Koran.On pp. [1-2], text decorated with gold ʻunwān and borders; Koranic text and chapter headings in purple (chapter headings sometimes separated from text with red rules), commentary in black; marginal corrections in hand of copyist; marginal notations in purple indicate chapter headings and division of Koranic text into 30 sections; author's name found in notations in upper left corners of pages marking beginning of each kurrāsah, many of these notations have been cut away.Dates in copyist's notation on p. [165]: wa-kamala al-awwal wa-huwa al-aṣl al-musawwad mimmā ḥarrarahu al-mawlá al-hammām Maḥmūd wa-sammā Durr al-asrār sādis al-Muḥarram ʻām 1272 [i.e. 18 September 1855] wa-ḥaṣal rasm suṭūrihi wa-waṣala kamāl surūrihi wasaṭ hilāl al-rasūl al-akram ʻām 1284 [i.e. 1867 or 8] ... ḥarrarahu mawlá al-salām sāmaḥahu mawlāhu al-malik al-ʻādil al-ʻallām. Date in colophon: sanat 1274 [1857 or 8].Text (not this copy) published.Commentary on the Koran.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousMufti (chief judge) of Damascus.Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey