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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.594, cont., 12.606)

firm of E.J. Brill, Leiden, in December 1971. Begins (p. 1, after a besmele, as in Giese’s edition, p. 1): a f I»*tI) Aj I r <L«I (j.« [1 .1 fv] j w UJ Lj Iaa 9 I I ^ » i'i I ^ jj| aJJ aa>JI j |*-‘« ■»Lc. jiol ijijjjj j-JLS (_jl ... ... |»1—i Lj 3—iLc. (jJLslaM (jllul ,ii jjjl j (jl <i_. 11,1 Ends (p. 157, as in Giese’s edition, p. 203:7-8): ** » JAJ 1 * Jij» j ... j A.tia)jl j5 hi r ciUjI J>c jJj5 m r Edition: Friedrich Giese, Die altosmanische Chronikdes ‘ASikpasazade aufGrund mehrerer neuentdeckter Handschriften von neuem herausgegeben (Leipzig 1929).

Cod.Or. 12.606 An epistolary miscellany The texts in this rather worn and incomplete volume were clearly copied by one copyist. Various Arabic and Turkish annotations in black ink and pencil are found on the inner front-board. The MS contains a typed letter in English (2 pages) by an orientalist on the contents. (1) ff. la-123a A collection of letters The undated copy misses parts at the beginning which makes it difficult to identify. The copy may well be Miir^e’dt by Ok?izade, who is identifiable as the author of at least some letters in the collection, quite a few copies of which are preserved in various libraries, but because of the omission of most headings - which is also the case in our copy - and the complicated rhymed prose punctuated by verses in Arabic and Persian, as well as the, often, abstract content no detailed description of it exists in any catalogue or elsewhere. Mehmed Ok?izade with the pen-name of §ahl made a brilliant career as secretary, and held, among other functions, the posts of re’rsülküttdb and ni$anci\ he died in 1039/1629 (cf. 'OM II, pp. 78-9; SO 2 IV, p. 1079; and Woodhead’s article). Some of the letters also occur in Fendün Ahmed Beg’s collection of letters (cf. below; see also under