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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.644, cont., 23.645)

apparently by the Armenian owner (36a). Hardly legible jottings, partly in Armenian (see above), and calculations are found on the last flyleaf and the inner boards. Bound in boards with dark brown leather back and edges; glazed cream paper; 39 folios; 213x147 mm and 143x82 mm, varying; 5-7, mostly slanting, lines; catchwords up to f. 22b; nesih\ headings, rubrics and Turkish vocabulary entries (margins) in red; multiple gold borders within black lines; for other data, see above. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (2b): j . .1 j ( als t_ibjl a 3 ... 3jli«-»ll $ aJI^i p-t- 3 aJiL»- *LI j jJ aJj! aj5UI s cjLlS 03*4 3 AjLoLit |»lt. aSji&jS ojhV 3!

Cod.Or. 23.645 Hutbet el-bey an uM aJo^ A mid 16th-century copy of a translation with commentary on seventy (Arabic) sayings attributed the the Imam ‘All by Shaykh Seyyid Hüseyn b. Seyyid Gaybï (flourished in the early part of the 15th century). The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. 2b, and in ff. 4a:2, 6a:3, and elsewhere. The author mentions himself in f. 6b: 1. The work is preceded by a lengthy introduction in Arabic and Turkish (2b-8a). Each saying is, then, headed by the word ‘kelime’ and a number; the last, kelime-i seb'fn, begins on f. 135b. A survey of the contents is found in Sohrweide II, pp. 78-9. A description of the work and a translation of the first 25 sayings is found in John Kingsley Birge, The Bektashi Order of Dervishes (London 1937), pp. 140-5. The endpapers contain some additional annotations in various hands: a remark in purple pencil on the contents (la, 5 lines); a prayer prescription (11 lines) with calculations (2a); an Arabic quotation of the Imam Shafi‘1 (143a, 3 lines); and a quotation of an Arabic letter sent by the Prophet, with a, mostly Turkish, instruction for its magical use, dated 1111/1699-1700 (143b, 9+6 lines). Bound in dark brown leather with gold tooled insets in Oriental fashion; glazed cream paper; (l)+144+(2) folios; 211x150 mm and 133x103 mm; 11 lines;