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The last items bought during the decade found their origin with A.A. Fatatri, a regular supplier since the 1960s (see the Introduction to Chapter 3): Codices Or. 20.397-405, acquired in May 1987 for ƒ4500.-. Among the more remarkable items, apart from the small Albano-Turkish collection mentioned above, we find: an early 19th-century mecmü ‘a with Ottoman administrative texts and poems (Or. 14.672); a late 16th- to early 17th- century description, in Italian, of the Ottoman Empire, and in particular of Istanbul and the customs of the Palace (Or. 17.067); a rare copy of Yusufi’s Varka vii Giil$ah (Or. 17.104); a 19th-century mecmü ‘a with a selection of disparate historiographical text fragments (Or. 17.107); and a collection of seal imprints (Or. 17.109). Among the seemingly not further documented items belong Or. 17.102 (a collection of medical recipes, 18th century), Or. 17.105 (a ta'bimamebythe 18th-century scholar Mehmed Akkerman!,undated), Or. 17.127 (an 18th-century commentary on Birgili Efendi’s Vastyet), Or. 17.153 (a treatise with pious advice, translated from the Persian, undated); Or. 17.157 (a collection of moralistic tales, copied by a child in 1199/1785); Or. 17.957 (a work on medicine, late 19th- or early 20th-century); Or. 20.397, 20.398, and 20.403 (all mainly collections of medical recipes and undated); Or. 20.402 (a mid 19th- century manual on surgery, translated from an unknown English example); Or. 20.404 (an early 20th-century collection of two summarized translations of the Arabic Mukhtasar al-Quduri, a popular manual of HanafT jurisprudence); and Or. 20.405 (an undated miscellany with treatises on geomancy). Literature: A.Th. van Leeuwen, Hendrik Kraemer, dienaar der wereldkerk (Amsterdam 1959).

Cod.Or. 14.653 Tuhfetü l-Haremeyn 6*0**^ <Ul»u An early 18th-century copy of a description of the pilgrimage by Yüsuf Nabï (d. 1124/1712) undertaken by the author in 1089 (1678). The title is mentioned in f. 2b: 10, on the ‘title page’ (la, with the name of the author), and on a label on the outer front-board (idem). The text ends with an author’s colophon which mentions the name of the author and the title, Tuhfe-i Haremeyn, in the form of a chronogram indicating that the copy was completed in 1093/1682 (cf. Götz H, 339). The prose text is punctured by a great many poetic intermezzi. It consists of an introduction (lb-2b), a description of the route between Üsküdar and the Hijaz, with chapters on Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem and Cairo (2b-21b), the ceremonies at Mecca, Mina, Muzdalifa and Medina (33a-48b), and ‘a description