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documented. In the introduction preceding the text (2a-3a), the author explains that he served in a regiment (alay-i humayüri), was active in three military campaigns against Persia, became an invalid but was appointed clerk to the ‘Nürïye Mosque’ (cami ‘-i Nürfye, possibly the Nuruosmaniye Mosque in Istanbul, completed by the mid 18th century) and was granted a ze'amet. However, he wished to become a scholar, like Ibn-i Kemal Pa§a in the past, which was made possible by the Sultan. Thereupon, he wrote the rhymed grammar as a gift to Prince Selim (‘tuhfe-i $ehzade Selim’, 3a:8). The work itself, consisting of distichs in mesnevf rhyme, is divided into a great many brief sections preceded by headings in red. The final secion, on tanwln, is followed by an author’s colophon (in red) in which the year 1175 (1761-2, corrected in black, replacing an illegible text) is mentioned, the same year in which the later Sultan Selim III was bom. The work is preceded by an index (lb-2a). Bound in boards with brown leather back and edges; glazed cream paper; 2+22 folios; 200x122 and 150x79 mm; 20 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesih; headings, rubrics, lines and small circles in red; gold borders within black lines; a simple headpiece with floral motifs in gold on f. lb; a more elaborate one with similar patterns in gold, purple, orange and blue on f. 2; completed in 1175 (1761-2) by the author (cf. above); black seals of ‘Osman Dehnl (?) occur on the first and second flyleaves (recto); purple library stamps (with the number 80 on the first flyleaf) with, among other things, the name of isma‘11 Pa§a, are found on the first flyleaf (recto), and ff. la, 3a and 22b. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (2a-b): Aj Luj I f jJt A 15 ai} I I l-t f aS * AjLdJI jS Aj jIaa- 3 I * -Aa_>- *’ [...] |jl ■" jj ^jLajj ‘**‘ «* Ua Cj 3 j$-4 * ^jl f J3US Ana *aXLt a.5 33 Ends (20b): aAjA A.J3I W Jjt! aS * (Jju AJ3 3> J3J3I aS jAajA 3AJ ^ 33 Colophon (ibidem): a5lS a jjjl 3' j-A aJu I tV* d_qL>ó I j Ajj I * ^Laj ^ *J J • Ani LS l_j 3J3I aS All Aaa» a aI ... a I *1 3 ■*. 3 aL I Aj It I J33J aS * a aI At> ij I tjA 33 j a5j A *j a aj I 33 ^ jj -~* 3 ■' r jJ a Aj I * jlA Ja I 3 Jr>) aa^S Ajj I a!3 Lai I a5Loi 3 a3 In-nt jjJV aJoA ij_t3 t 33 * AI3I |j_. t, ui 3 (ju o V Aj La 1—aJI nv« -tu,