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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.466, cont., 12.467)

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Cod.Or. 12.467 Divan C&M *» An undated copy of a collection of poems by the $eyhiilislam Yahya Efendi b. Zekeriya Efendi (d. 1053/1644). The collection contains: 311 gazeh in divan sequence (4b-55a) - four additional gazeh are found in the margins of ff. 12a, 20a, 27b and 33b; a kit‘a (55a); a chronogram on an Ottoman victory dated 1030/1620-1 (55a); eleven quatrains (55a-56a); twenty miifreds (56a-57a); an ‘tdiye kaside - Sultan ‘Osman [II, ruled 1027/1618-1031/1622] is mentioned in the twelfth distich (57b-58a); a mesnevi entitled Sakt-ndme (58b-60b). A marginal inscription of, possibly, the word vakf, repeated three times, occurs in the margin of f. 5a. (For another copy of the same work, see Codices Or. 879 and 23.649, below.) An ilahiin the format of a kaside in three columns, partly lost by rebinding and pieces of paper glued onto the folio on both sides, occurs on f. la-b; a prescription with a list of ingredients, headed terkib-i enfesiye (?), a distich and a hemistich (?) are found on f. 3a. More verses are found on the final folios: a gazel by BakI (60b, margin), a distich (below the last line, ibidem); and a kaside of the same format and rhyme as found on f. la-b. Bound in dark brown and red leather with flap, embellished with refined gold patterns in Oriental style; glazed cream paper; (1)+61+(1) folios; 233x130 mm and 174x82 mm; 19 lines; without catchwords; calligraphic nesta'lik-, rubrics in red; multiple gold borders within black lines; a precious headpiece with floral patterns gold, red, blue and pink (4b, see plate); without a date and the name of a copyist; owners’ inscriptions of Ak Semsuddfn el-Bayranu (2a); and ‘AIT Haydar, with a seal and the year 1217 (1802-3). A pencil number ‘K 281’ is