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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.107, cont., 17.108)

Cephalonian.

ff. 60b-61b. A petition and a memorandum of Nusühzade ‘All Pa§a, concerning permission to resume shooting execises for gunners of the Arsenal in the incirli Bag?e, Istanbul. It is followed by an approving telhis from the Grand Vizier, izmirli Salih Pa§a. ff. 61b-62b. A note (tenure) from the kapudan in response to the reïsülküttab, Sadtk Efendi, dated [1]237 (1821-2). It concerns a conflict about the non-payment of a cargo of wheat delivered to the town of Koron (Koroni) by an Austrian merchantman. f. 63a. A note (tenure) from the kapudan to the kethiidd of the grand vizier, dated [1]238 (1822-3). It concerns the illegal sale of a number of ships to Englishmen by a Tunisian merchant who had bought them from Hammamci ‘Arif Aga. ff. 63a-b. A memorandum from the kapudan to the Porte, dated 5 RebC'ii l-evvel [1]237 (30 September 1821). It concerns apetition fromHacci ‘All, acaptain who had been exiled from Izmir, who now requested permission to once again live in the town.

*** Bound in gold-embossed green leather with flap; thin, pale pink paper without watermarks; 1+70+1 folios; 242x157 mm and 175x87 mm; 21 lines; catchwords; nk‘a; headings, rubrics and lines in red; without a date of the name of a copyist. Acquired from E.J. Brill, Leiden, March 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.108 Hadika-i endiye der tarika-i Nakybendiye ve behce-i fjalidtye +* *4~>i^ t § N *.~ •* *~* # <uu jj t\ V.I f/ïi <». An undated, incomplete copy of an anonymous treatise on the teachings of the Nak§bendfye shaykh, Khalid Efendi an-Naqshbandfal-Qadirï ash-Shuhrawardf al- Kubrawl (mentioned in f. 4a: 10-2), who died in SulaymanTya in 1242 (1826). The title is found on f. 7b:7-8. The title page shows the crude inscription ‘Silsile-i