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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.349, cont., 14.367)

Ends (42a): aLIaa. jLVI <u.> *>«li ^ «j--" *—33^ >***'■ 5 “>* 3 Ut . ' I i} I1 j 4rfJI 3 jJ 4 li Catalogue entries: Götz I, 241, where one other MS is mentioned; see also Sohrweide I, 40-1. Cod.Or. 14.367 Hadikat es-su ‘add * 1 ^ A late 16th-century copy of a Shiite martyrology by Mehmed b. Siileyman who wrote under the pen-name of Fuzffll (d. 963/1556). The tide is found in f. 4a:6; the name of the author in f. 3b:2. The ‘title page’ has the inscription 'Fuzüli hazretlerinin Hadikasidir’. (See for further particulars, Cod.Or. 12.437, above.) A few marginal corrections. The text proper is followed by a postscript, including a beyt, by the copyist in praise of the work (13 lines, siiliis, see plate). Rebound in brown leather with flap, blind tooled insets in Oriental style, damaged and repaired; glazed cream paper; (l)+204+l+(l) folios, with original numbering; 203x120 mm and 141x71 mm; 19 lines; without catchwords; calligraphic ta'ltk] headings in red siiliis; rubrics, dots and lines in red; gold borders within black lines; an exquisite headpiece with floral motifs in gold, blue pink and orange preceding the text; completed in 993 (1585); without the name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription with a tailed signature and the year [1)272 (1855-6) is found on the title page; a seal with the year [1]229 (1813-4) occurs on the same page. Purchased at Sotheby’s, April 1976. Heading (lb): ( yj^jj j j•öüx kiHs-l 3 >“*2 3 ^ Begins (lb, as in the Cairo edition, p. 2): 1^1 ISj ^1-iUt a a[j] c-ij k Ends (204b, as in the Cairo edition, p. 364): jl^Sj 4.«JL-8 iJÓjJÜ J-i JL*" (^1 (Ji The postscript begins (ibidem):