An'am Sharif, prayers, copied by Dervish Ahmed ibn Muhammad al-Tokadi, known as Dervis Ahmed (d. 1715) Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1118/AD 1705-06


Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 79 leaves, 9 lines to the page written in naskhi and tawqi' scripts in black ink, gold roundels with blue dots marking the verses, inner margins ruled in gold and black, one illuminated opening headpiece in colours and gold, a double page with two illuminated hilyehs, chapter headings marked with rectangular panels in colours and gold, catchwords and occasional commentaries in wide outer margins, prayers in Ottoman Turkish in another hand at end, contemporary Ottoman gilt-stamped brown leather, with flap 148 x 98 mm.
|Dervis Ahmed, who died in AH 1127/AD 1715, was a pupil, alongside his brother Fazullah Tokadi, Suleyman Uskudari, and Mustafa Anber Aga, of the celebrated scribe and teacher Muhammad Pasha of Belgrade (died 1670). He was an instructor of calligraphy in the Topkapi palace. His son Dervis Muhammad (died 1729) was also a calligrapher.