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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.580, cont.)

copyist. The endpapers and inner boards contain notes in Arabic and Turkish. A list of thirteen Arabic weights, with Turkish equivalents in smaller script, is found on f. lb. Various notes on the events taking place in the Ukraine in 1088-9 (1677- 8): the retreat of the Muslims from Qehrin to Bender, and the reconquest by the Ottomans of the first-mentioned fortress (cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji III, pp. 446- 8), occur on the inner back-board. (1) ff. lb-126b A mid 17th century copy of an Arabic work on Hanafite jurisprudence entitled Mukhtasar al-Quduri, by Abü 1-Husayn Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Qudürï (d. 428/ 1037, cf. GAL I, pp. 174-5, S I, pp. 295-6). It is preceded by an index, ff. 2a-3b. It was completed in Cemaiil-ewel 1047 (September-October 1637), see colophon in the margin of f. 126b. Some Turkish glosses occur in the margins, partly lost by trimming. (2) ff. 127b-144b An Arabic-Turkish vocabulary, incomplete at the end. The Arabic words, arranged alphabetically in chapters (bab) and in six columns on each page, are accompanied by interlinear Turkish equivalents in smaller script. Begins (127b): ... MUjjj *).*_>*] jL-it [£^L3] ljI^ 1

Ends (144b):

[ftflj] [fJU-] ^Jj [j-mIJ -»'j [■»*•] ...

(3) ff. 145a-b A page of an Arabic commentary, clearly taken from a different manuscript, but written by the same scribe.

Bound in dark brown leather, with two blind tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed cream paper; 146 folios; 204x128 mm and 135x75 mm, varying; (2) 9 lines; catchwords; nesih; (2) headings in red; (1) copied in 1047 (1637), cf. above.