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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.575, 14.576)

Cod.Or. 14.575 Turkish glosses and text fragments This tattered and tom volume contains two main works in Arabic. The first on Hanafite jurisprudence: (1), ff. lb-61b, Tuhfat al-muluk by Zayn ad-Dïh Muhammad ar-Razi (flourished at the end of the 7th/13th century, cf. GAL I, p. 383). The second, a manual on epistemology: (3), ff. 67b-95a, Ta'lim al- muta ‘allim li-ta ‘allum tariq al- ‘ilm by Burhan ad-Din az-Zamüjï (c. 600/1203, cf. GAL I, p. 462). Both are undated and copied in two different hands. The texts are accompanied by some Turkish glosses. A Turkish poem, probably a song (8 distichs), followed by the remark ‘be-i^an-i Abdullah ibn Sefer Höca-ogh- zade... ’, and a part of a letter in Turkish, all in coarse gikeste and partly illegible by trimming, are found on f. 67a. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.576 Turkish glosses and notes This manuscuscript is composed of two volumes in different formats, bound together. It contains: (1), ff. lb-28b, an Arabic work on the division of estates, entitled al-Fara’id as-Sirajiya by Siraj ad-Din as-Sajawandi (flourished 6th century, cf. GAL I, p. 378) ‘in the handwriting of Hamfdl, [1]199 [1784-5]’ (cf. f. la), and: (2), ff. 29b-62b, an Arabic treatise on jurisprudence, entitled Tuhfat al-mulük, by Zayn ad-Din Muhammad ar-Razi, incomplete at the end. Both works are accompanied by a plethora of interlinear and marginal glosses and marginal tables in smaller script, in Turkish (3a-llb, 22a-23b, 24b, see plate). Various Turkish notes are found on ff. la (an epistolary phrase) and 29a (a note in pencil, on the birth of a son called Necib, 14 Receb 1327 (2 August 1909), later erased and marked ‘vefdt’). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia April 1979.