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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.658, cont., 23.659)

Seyyid el-Hafiz ibrahim e§-§ehimi b. Mahmud in 1274 (1857-8). Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Catalogue entry: Films 3 (I, pp. 1-2).

Cod.Or. 23.659 Risale-i Nak§bendf el-Kadiri-yi Zenbünye j V«« .Vi 2‘t An anonymous treatise, dated 5 CemaiT 1-dh.ir 1318 (30 September 1900), on the history and practices of the Zenbünye branch of the Nak§bendf-Kadiriye order of dervishes, founded by Seyyid Mehmed Sadik Erzincanl (cf. pp. 12-3). A contemporary shaykh of the branch was istanbulf Yahya Agah b. Salih, post~ni$ïn of dergah of Erdï Baba at Davudpaga, Istanbul (cf. marginal gloss on p. 3; see also Cod.Or. 17.110, above). He may have been the author of the treatise (see also Cod.Or. 23.661, below). The branch does not seem to be mentioned in secondary literature, neither do the tekke nor any of the shaykhs mentioned in the treatise. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on p. 2. The prose is punctured by poems, gazels and kit‘as. Extensive marginal additions and glosses by the copyist, among them a silsile of the order (p. 13). The text is followed by a crude drawing of the seal of the Prophet (p. 32), a prayer in Arabic, headed Miinacat-i Seyyid 'Abdulkadir Gïlanï (p. 33), and a prayer prescription (ibidem). Begins (p. 2, after a besmele): 3 3 3JL4Aa 3 jT 3 4AAI illJ j 3 3 yJLü 4JJI <La 3_L>- 3 -<_■ «• I* j 3 4a jAÜJ i"i 4j jJa 4J3I jttjlt 0 CiijjJtt a IJ I * IJL „I I a j5ir> AXjjJ AaIc. tjjJa AJj&ïj ^3 jaLaJI ^ 1» <« «'» 3 3 j t nil» 3 4a 34330 jS 3 ... iSjki Jj3-J ... ua! mV) I ' * 1 ■ W Ends (p. 32): I (jaa] 4JLa Ca I AJb La^o 3 Ca Luóla j a j 4a 3j*S 4_la I 4joJ3jé 111 153 jJ» ... Ajl jj —* 13 a A aJLuj j 3a 3 (jAj jJ 4_ii 11) Cal aLc. [(jj 4->.jL (jLaJ33 jajjjji |4J a Aal La»j j A j al ö_i jda 3 jjj A jjl 3»»l lit I j 4a 3-2-c. <4JU Colophon (ibidem)'. Z 6 15 \ 0 \ n A a--*