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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 14.690, cont., 17.001)

Bound in gold-embossed dark green leather; glazed cream (ff. 1-16) and white (ff. 1724) paper of varying quality; (l)+24+(l) folios; 265x150 mm and 206x103 mm; 13 lines; catchwords; calligraphic ta‘Uk; gold discs; multiple gold borders within black lines; elaborate headpieces with floral motifs in gold, green, orange and pink on ff. lb (see plate), 7b and 17b; see also above. Acquired from Sotheby’s, London, June 1980.

Cod.Or. 17.001 A miscellany A collection of papers, including five original copies of documents, related to the career of a British officer of the Egyptian Mounted Police, Arthur Harrington (Bey). Acquired from Sotheby’s, London, June 1980. (a) An envelope (162x221 mm) with heraldic ornamentation in gold print with the legends ‘ni§an-i meadf and ‘Kalem-i ni§an-i hümayün’\ and a hand-written address ‘iskenderfye Polis hiikümdan Harrington Bege a ‘ta buyurulan ikinci rütbe Mecidf ni§an-i %f-§aninda berat-i ‘alisV (nk'a, 2 lines) which clearly had held f, below. (b) A letter (425x300 mm) with printed heraldic ornamentation and the legend ‘Hidmyet-i celile-i Misriye’, declaring (nk'a, 5 lines) that Arthur Harrington, member of the mounted police (silvan candarma) was promoted to the rank of yiizbafi (lieutenant), with a blue seal (inscribed: DTvan-i ‘umum-i candarma’ and illegible date) and superscript (in divani, 2 lines) with the seal of [the Khedive] Muhammad Tawfik and the date of 9 Receb 1300 (16 May 1883, see plate). White paper, 430x300 mm. (c) An original copy of a buyruldu (divani, 4 lines) by which Arthur Harrington was promoted to the rank of kaymakam (lieutenant-colonel), with the seal of [the Khe-