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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.585, 14.591)

Or. 14.585 Turkish glosses This manuscript contains an undated copy of an Arabic work on grammar Kafiyat dhawi al-adab ft ‘ilm kalam al-‘Arab, by Ibn al-Hajib (d. 646/1249), cf. GAL I, p. 303. The text is accompanied by a plethora of glosses in minute script. A series of Turkish glosses, explaining Arabic terms, are found on the ‘title page (la). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.591 A miscellany (1) ff. lb-31a Ltivan Jf*,.» An undated, incomplete copy of a collection of poems by the poetess Zübeyde tJamm who used the pen-name of Fitnat (d. 1194/1780). We find the following items: six quatrains (lb-2a); a tahynts on the na't-i serif by Es‘ad Efendi (2a-4a); three kasides (5b-7b); eleven chronograms (7b-12a); a miiseddes (12a-13b); a tahmis on a gazel by Cevrf (13b-14a); 34 gazels in divan sequence (14b-21a) - another three are added in the margins of ff. 17b and 19a - ten kit‘as (21b-22a); 22 müfreds (22b-23b); two lugaz (24b); 29 mu'ammas on the names of men (25b- 27a); seven chronograms (28a-30b), the last of which refers to the birth of Prince Mehmed - the final catchword on f. 30b does not suit the text on f. 31a, written in a different hand; and the last lines of a chronogram (on a fetvd published by §erff Efendi, 31a). A Persian distich by Sa’ib is found in the margin 0 f f. 19a. (For another copy of the same work and references, see Cod.Or. 12.388, above.) Begins (lb, as in the printed edition, I, p. 1): I *!*>■ >*!■ ik j* Ij AÜa^ jL>oI >*.«- L ^| The last line on f. 30b reads: jU* jaib 4J3I * >*Lt j p* jjb aJjl 1>>«« j aLi [aJjl] jLiu j