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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.135, cont.)

fera’ii) to heirs who had been drowned or burnt (28b). Marginal indications of content, in red, and schematic annotations, mostly in pencil. The work is followed by a prayer in Arabic (29b), and four tables (30b-32b) demonstrating the relations between heirs and inheritors, with explanatory texts in Arabic. A plethora of additional text fragments, in different hands, are found on the inner boards, the endpapers and on separate sheets of paper. Among the Turkish fragments, we find: a note on the period of Ottoman reign (541 years, inner front- board); a list of Ottoman Sultans with their years of accession and periods of their reign, from ‘Osman to Mustafa [III], from 1171 (1757) (la); fetvds by Mustafa el-Müftï at Hezargrad (Razgrad; lb, 7 lines; 2a, 7 lines); by Mehmed el-Müftr at Ruscuk (Ruse; lb, 3 lines; 2a, 12 lines; 30a, 6 lines; 33a, 7 lines); by Mehmed el-Miifti at Hezargrad (2a, 5 lines; 30a, 5 and 9 lines); and a fetva by ‘Abduicelil el-Müfti at Hezargrad (2a, 5 lines); a list of the number of manifestations of Jabra’il to various prophets, from Adam to Muhammad; lists of data with years on conquests, accession, death etc. for the reigns of the Sultans Orfcan, Murad, and Yildinm Bayezfd (32b); a note on horse saddles (33a, 2 lines); various prescriptions and recipes, among them for the preparation of a (black) sheep’s head and recipes for suppressing tooth ache and malaria (33a-b, inner back- board); a pencil note on: (Russian) ‘Graf Tostof (Count Tolstoy), (English) Shakespeare and (French) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (inner back-board); a separate leaf between ff. 32-33, contains the text of a song (?), written in pencil in two columns (begins: kapuya geldi bir ‘Arab/ ayidinm ben nedir dilek/ ‘Arab ayidir Hakk emriyle/ ben seni almaga geldim). Bound in boards with dark brown leather back; glazed white paper; 33 folios; 205x125 mm and 147x70 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesih; headings, rubrics, lines, dots and borders in red; without a date or name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription of isma‘ïl Efendi Gümülcinevf (?) is found on the inner front- board. Acquired from S.H. Alié, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

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