700

ACQUISITIONS OF 200-2 (Or. 25.721, cont., 25.722)

It ends (30b): lj jaj I jl jj a AJ3I I jJu L>- *a 3^3 <üj I ijfiij* $ I On ff. 31a-40b, in a different hand, there is an incomplete fragment of another treatise on various aspects of mysticism, in more simple Turkish, alternated with Arabic quotations. It is divided in unnumbered chapters (bab) and begins (31a): uiL ... j j j 3~: ^ ^ f j ^1 jJjjl jj^il 3>l 4-JI ■*

It ends (40b): Colophon (ibidem):

gilt j i, j", ui I aaLI jJ ■ " jSI * nil .V«>JI a ^ aJjI ,*L*5 ij^ 4 *>»i r A IJJ I 4j2ujjA 4fA

Smaller prose fragments are found on f. 92b (an incomplete text, headed ‘haza makalat el-Hacci Bekta§ Veil... ’, followed by a lengthy mesnevi occurs on ff. 93a- 95a); and 100a (seven lines in rhymed prose, and, in the same hand, a note on the year of Kemal Pa§azade’s death, 940 [1534]). Finall, a prayer in Arabic with a magic drawing is found on f. 102b.

*** Bound in dark brown leather with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed cream paper, worn and stained in various places; 104 folios (f. 23 is counted double); 143x210 mm; without a date (see also above). Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, 29 September 2000.

Cod.Or. 25.722 Turkish text fragments An undated, but clearly late 17th-century, collection of astronomical tables, of elegant draughtmanship, with accompanying texts and notes in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. There is also a series of nine, partly signed, notes in Persian and Turkish, seemingly in the hand of the draughtsman. They are in small black and red script and concern historical events, mainly troop movements in the surroundings of Istanbul, some notes have astronomical references. They are