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ACQUISITIONS 2000-2 (Or. 25.758, cont., 25.759)

Bound in dark brown leather with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed white paper; 1 + 114 + 1 folios; 200x108 nun and (1) 152x75 mm; (1) 15 lines; catchwords, mostly omitted in the parts following (1); (1) nesih; various scripts, often written in a slantwise or vertical fashion and ranging from calligraphic nesta'ltk down to sikeste in the parts following (1); (1) headings in red, also occasionally in the parts following (1); (1) multiple gold borders within black lines; a fine headpiece with floral motifs in gold, red, blue, green and orange, and a title in white, on f. 4b; see also above. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, January 2001.

Cod.Or. 25.759 A miscellany An undated collection of two main texts in Turkish and Arabic, probably copied by one scribe. (1) ff. la-5a Vaki'a-name 4_«h -< •«I» A copy of a well-known work in the ‘mirror for princes’ genre by Üveys b. Mehmed who used the pen-name of Veysï (d. 1037/1628). It is also known as Ifabname. The name of the author is mentioned in f. 5a: 12. (For another copy of the same work, a description of the contents and references, see Cod.Or. 12.419(2), above.) Begins (la): l)* 1 '*’. 1 I — J jd® **»-•>■ 1 oLiolj Jjl L5 3 a^>- jj j aj nn UJ J 5 * " 1 ^ ^ Cd Uit» ijj I ^ t A , j ,-| j . ,7. A ,f. ^ I - A 1 a _ ( A K\ J .> I ^ 1 jJ fi A—j—1 AJ3I * a «_< i~ 11) « alj 4 K*t) dj 3I j J3J Ends (5a): üM' tjLïl» Lj La L*. a jJl. aj I j ,jL«yJI ^jUoJLoi l-~«l u.1jJjj f. .* a j ill ,,, l*5LuiJt 3 a 31 4j 1 f (jlyj.aJI a 3J I •. « ^ . .*■