Fine copy of the Ṣūfī work expositing a collection of spiritual utterances attributed to al-Shaʻrānī's shaykh, ʻAlī al-Khawwāṣ al-Burullusī (d.1532 or 3). Apparently once in a collection (majmūʻah) that contained the works listed on opening 'title page' (p.9). Now followed by a work attributed to Ibn ʻArabī (d.1240), Kitāb min Allāh sabaqa. ; Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 503 ; Origin: As appears in colophon on p.337, final work copied by Ismāʻīl al-Liddī al-Azharī al-Rifāʻī with transcription completed 9 Jumādá II 1160 [?] [ca. 18 June 1747 ?]. Dated reading notice on opening 'title page' provides a rough terminus ante quem for first work of 1727. Paper for opening work would suggest early 18th century. Dated reading notices for one ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān on 'title pages' for both works would suggest that both works had been brought together by 1778 or 9. ; Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Three inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-8). ; Former shelfmark: From spine label, inner front cover and 'title page' (p.9), "IL 77" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip). ; Binding: Pasteboards now covered in dark pink cloth ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings (doublures) and lining of envelope flap in marbled paper (mainly in blue, pink, yellow and white) ; fore edge flap lined in red brown leathers ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining and lifting of cloth. ; Support: European laid paper of several types ; near the opening a type with 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including three crescents (80 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.14, 23, etc.) and egg-like figure with six circles within and crown above (see p.18, 19, etc. and compare nos. 378, 381, 387, 392 and 394 dated 1724-1726 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1) ; another ...