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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.654, cont., 23.655, 23.656)

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Catalogue entries: Blochet A.F. 133-4, S. 51; Fihris 3695-6 (III, pp. 198-9); Rossi Borg. Turco 22; TYTK (Cankm) 455; see also GOW, p. 121n. Literature: ‘OM III, pp. 172-3; GOW, p. 120n.

Cod.Or. 23.655 Turkish notes and glosses This manuscript contains an Arabic work on jurisprudence, entitled Mukhtasaral- Qudürï, by Abü 1-Husayn Ahmed b. Muhammad al-Qudürï (d. 428/1037, cf. GAL I, pp. 174-5, S I, pp. 295-6). It was completed by Hasan b. ‘Abdullah in Segedin (Szeged) during the afternoon of a day at the end of Receb 962 (11-20 June 1555), the month and day are further specified as ‘aaj jl ^ **■ - aU >*-l jl ( _ r 4’. The colophon on f. 163b is followed by a signature, of calligraphic complexity, of the copyist. Two owners’ seals, one of which shows the name of Hiiseyn, are found on the ‘title page’, also containing various notes in Arabic and Turkish, among them a repeated aphorism warning against the company of ignorants. The text is accompanied by a plethora of interlinear and marginal glosses, occasionally in Turkish. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.

Cod.Or. 23.656 Attributes and names of Allah and Muhammad The inner boards of this cover contain two tables with a text in calligraphic nesiti, against a background of gold floral patterns, explaning the qualities and, in the