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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 18.175, cont., 18.259)

numerical value of the letters of the names of the persons involved. The title is found in the first line. An introduction (16b), is followed by eight chapters (bab). The work ends with an ebced table, indicating the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet. It begins (16b): !J||J II Ir»" HI jl = ] L> $-> j-i aJLoi J l_j $ 11. o 1 ^ ■ II r- aJLui j jaAajj ujjj! 4_ieJ*Ls ójjnjI ó-ijillj

An incomplete, erroneously bound quire without covers; glazed cream paper; 19 folios; 240x173 mm and 160x85 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords on ff. lb-4b; nesib; headings (occasionally), colophon (10a), rubrics and lines in red; (3) completed on 5 Zt 1-ka‘de 1248 (26 March 1833); without the name of a copyist. Acquired from E.J. Brill, London, December 1983.

Cod.Or. 18.259 A collection of devotional texts An undated, illustrated prayerbook in small format with, mostly, Arabic texts in various hands. It contains: selected chapters of the Koran and prayers, with occasional headings and instructions in Turkish. There are also a number of Turkish texts: commentaries on prayers, followed by the prayers in question in Arabic, as well as various prescriptions. Thus we find: §erh-iDu'a-idevlet (154a- 168b); §erh-iEsmdAllah el-mübarek (184b-189a); §erh-i Du ‘a-i ‘Abbas (193a- 196a); a series of prayer prescriptions useful, among other things, for curing pains in the head and stomach (197a-202b, 204b); a prescription for a talisman (202b-203a); §erh-i Du'a-i Karsiyyd (227b-235a); §erh-i Du‘a-i hazret-i Resul Allah (237b-240a); §erh-iDu'a-i ‘Alt(242a to a-245a); two stories based on hadith introducing prayers without specific titles (252b-254b, 256b-257b); four prayer prescriptions useful for curing bellyache, arousing desire, and avoiding disaster (262b-264b); §erh-i Du ‘a-i mercane (265a-269b); §erh-i Du ‘a-i salat (291 b-300a); and Serh-i Du‘a-i ihfa (345a-349b). The first pages (2b-30a) contain varicoloured, schematic drawings of various Islamic monuments (see plate), identified in headings; symbols (‘ayn, crescent, various seals, banners); and talismans. The ‘title page’ (2a) has an inscription in Latin: ‘Collegii Parisiens Societ. Jesu