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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 26.253, cont., 26.254)

Ottoman; a great number of works with that title were printed between 1892 and 1926, cf. Özege 22219-37. The MS contains three slips of paper with various annotations.

Bound in dark blue paper with a blank label on the outer front-cover; white paper with printed lines; 1+211+2 pages, with original numbers; 200x150 mm; 19 lines; small nk‘a; without a date or name of a copyist. A note in pencil: ‘Istanbul 1971’, is found on the inner front-board. Acquired from Dr Menno Hekker; registered in December 2002.

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Cod.Or. 26.254 A collection of songs This undated collection is divided into chapters devoted to the various makams. A survey of the chapters is found in the ‘fihrist-i makamat' on ff. lb-2a, but many of the indicated chapters were omitted or have not been filled in. Some other (numbered) pages have been removed. The songs, styled §arki, nakarat, and sema% were noted in various hands. Only occasionally authors are indicated in headings. They are: HaccI Fa’ikBeg (3b); Dede Efendi (15b, 20b, 40b, 46, 50b, 61b); Nu‘man Aga (15b); ‘Arif Beg (21a); Riza Efendi (26b, 73b); Sa‘fd Efendi (26b); Beste ibrahïm Beg/Efendi (28b, 41a); ‘ismet Aga (40b); Sultan Selim (Jan (41a, 80b); ‘All Efendi (46b); Beste HaccI ismaTl Efendi (50b); Rifat Beg (66b); and Hafiz Efendi (71b). Various notes and jottings are found on f. la; a note on the birth of a son, named Mustafa §evkl on Wednesday 5 Receb 1280 (16 December 1863), occurs on f. 2a; a draft letter in irregular §ikeste, with many erasures and corrections, dated 24 March 1304 (1888), occurs on f. 85a. Bound in boards covered in blue-green marbled paper, with dark red leather back