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36. Nazmï: a gazel (36b) 37. Nef‘i: a gazel (130b) 38. Ragib: a fragment (163a) 39. Ra’T: a gazel (131a) 40. RamT: a gazel (together with VahdT, 104a-b) and another gazel (104b) 41. Rasib: a gazel (13a-b) 42. Rindï: a gazel (105b) 43. RiyazT: a gazel (66a) 44. Rühï: two gazels (33a-b) 45. Rii§dT: seven gazels (60a-62b) 46. Sabit: 22 gazels (13b-17b, 99b-100a, 100b-103a), a nazire on a gazel by NabT (98b-99b) and two mesnevi (52a-58a, 149a-157a) 47. Sabri: two gazels (47a-b, 60a) 48. Sahib: a gazel (105a) 49. Saktb: two gazels (12a-13a) 50. §inasl: a gazel (42a) 51. TayyibT: a gazel (63a-b) 52. Tifll: a gazel (66a-b) 53. VahdT: a gazel (together with Rami, 104a-b) 54. Vail: fourteen gazels (18a-19a, 40a-b, 47b-50b) 55. feyhiilisldm Yahya Efendi: a gazel (62b-63a) A few other poems cannot be attributed (136b-137a, 163a, 144b-145a); a mesnevi, headed ‘a poem on the reason for Kemal Beg’s exile’ (145b-146a), is followed by ‘an answer by Kazim Beg’, followed by a series of fragments attributed to the same (146a-147a); the aforementioned poem on the ascension to the throne of Sultan Mahmud (143b-144a) is possibly by the copyist; an anonymous Persian gazel is found on f. 162b. Finally, there are prose annotations in unformed handwriting on ff. 138 (a prayer prescription, 5 lines), 157b (a fragment of a story, 10 lines) and on the last flyleaf (verso, a prayer, 10 lines). A few marginal additions. Bound in embossed brown leather with flap and blind, partly red, tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed paper of varying quality, and partly damaged and later restored, in various shades of cream, yellow, pink and green; the margins of a number of the cream-coloured pages are decorated with stencilled vegetal patterns in slightly darker shades of pale brown to green; the written spaces of these pages are coloured differently from the margins; 172+1 folios; f. 66 occurs twice; the