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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.098, cont.)

Vizier Hiiseyn Pa§a (15a-17a), of the §eyhülislam (17a-18a), of the late Seyhiilislam es-Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi (18a-20a), and of the same (20b-21a); a kaside-i sünbül in praise of the seybiilislam (21a-22b); kasides in praise of the late Seyhülislam es-Seyyid ‘All Efendi (22b-24a), of the Grand Vizier Hasan Pa§a and the $eykülisl&m es-Seyyid ‘All Efendi (24a-26a), of the Grand Vizier ‘All Pa§a and ‘the incomparable mosque’ (26a-27b); a kaside on the destruction of the Muscovite waggon fortress, with a chronogram on the arrival of the keys in Istanbul (27b-30a); a kaside describing the seyhülislam Feyzüllah Efendi (30a- 31a); a kaside-i fahriye (31a-32a); a kaside describing the Grand Vizier Mehmed Pa§a (32a-33b); various fragments, headed (33b) ‘tetfdre-i ahval-i pür-melal-i hod' (33b-34b); 331 gazeh in divan sequence (35b-90b, incomplete, breaking off towards the end of the section with poems rhymed in -yd; the erased catchword on f. 90b does not suit the word following on f. 91a). Also five fragments (91a): 31 quatrains (91a-93b); 86 matla ‘s (93b-97a); a tahmis on a gazel by Nedlm (97b- 98a); a tercT-i bend (98a-98b); and five riddles (lugaziyat, 98b-100a). A few marginal corrections and additions, among them: glosses in explanation of difficult words (lb-3a); a gazel by Sabit in the hand of the copyist (86a); beyts by Sultan Selim and Tayyar Pa§a (100a). Extensive pencil annotations in the margins have been erased. Also Arabic lines ascribed to the Imam ‘Aynl; a beyt by Shah Isma‘11 (in Persian) with a nazire by Sultan Selim; various kit 'as, among them one by the copyist (la); additional verses in Persian and Turkish, in various hands, among them the Grand Vizier Ragtb Mehmed Papa’s and SidkI’s, are found on f. 100b. The price of |/]975,- occurs in pencil on the first flyleaf, recto. A typed decription, in English, is pasted on the inner front-board. Rebound in boards with a flap covered in brown marbled paper with tulip motifs in green, red, and yellow; brown linen back and edges; glazed cream paper; 1 + 100+1 folios; 217x137 mm and 150x78 mm; 20 lines; catchwords; ta'lik; headings, lines and mutiple borders in red; multiple gold borders within black lines on ff. lb-2a; a heading with floral motifs in gold, orange and blue on f. lb; completed by Seyyid Mehmed b. Seyyid Mahmud in Cemaii l-ahir 1147 (October-November 1734); owners’ inscriptions of isma‘11 es-Sannanl(? undotted) and of ‘Abdullah §a‘ranlzade at ‘U$ak, with a seal dated 1209 (1794-5), both on f. la. Acquired from E.J. Brill, March 1981. Begins (lb, after a besmele): ajyui JM! jJUjAS CjIji jT) jkU* *a1J jZa») oxJfji Li>>-