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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.122, cont., 17.123, 17.124)

Ends (53a): a [?] tLuijji u- a 3* 3 [’] *1*» 111 • 3jil iLuöl aiapjl y-tlj-J» jJit oAiiljJ») u>u/l jtijjj .1 CbW ■ " • ■ Aj 1 iLuul JSj j

Cod. Or. 17.123

Vasfyet[-name] [ <La ^*] '—^* a 3 An undated copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a treatise on the principles of the Islamic faith by Mehmed b. Pïr ‘AIT BirgivT (Birgili Mehmed Efendi, d. 981/1573). Many manuscript copies have survived. This copy ends with a besmele and a catchword, which seems to suggest that in the original manuscript another treatise followed. For more details and references, see Cod.Or. 12.339(1), above. A few marginal corrections, additions and jottings.

Begins (lb, as in Cod.Or. 12.339, f. 5b: 12): jiLu ajjI i 3 tr-i-fcl-*® j>L j j jJL> w ■* r Lo i£ijL»$3 j viljJt» I J Ends (46b): aJLjlJI ■ ■ II U -« ■ -< ... jjISj fjt J-tti. aib aL jl Oi jUi ... aIlI (_jL«I LS* (jJjlï <uijl *Lt.» y>* >• ** 4-rtJjl I * j IIII *i)1 fk HU j I 3-i. 3 3!

Bound in dark brown leather with flap and blind tooled insets in Oriental style; crude, partly glazed cream paper, tom and stained in many places; 46 folios; 202x143 mm and 160x90 mm, varying; 15 lines; vowelled nesih\ headings, rubrics, lines and dots in red; without a date and the name of a copyist. Acquired from S.H. Alié, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.124 A miscellany This late 18th-century manuscript contains a great many annotations in various hands as well as a few texts of greater length. An owner’s inscription, which