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6. Most recent acquisitions, 2000 to 2003

An important provider of manuscripts after the 1990s remained G.J.O Bouwman of Leiden, a dealer in antiquities, books and manuscripts. The Leiden University Library acquired from him: Codices Or. 25.718-26 (29 september 2000), Or. 25.727-33 (23 October 2000), Or. 25.756-72 (January 2001), and Or. 26.045-6 and 26.051, all Middle-Eastern manuscripts, quite a few of which contain Turkish texts. Or. 25.734, unusual letters in Turkish and Armenian from Azerbaijan and dated 1866, was a gift from Mr N.W.J. van Duykeren of Doesburg, who had inherited the documents from his father, a dealer in antiquities, and a daughter of whom had studied Arabic in Leiden. Further undocumented works are found in Codices Or. 25.730, 25.756, 25.769 and 26.046. Of great interest are also Or. 25.719, an early manuscript version of the divan of Seyyid E§ref dated 1271 (1854-5), known from a later printed edition, and Or. 25.762, a private copy book, early 19th-century, with Arabic and Turkish texts compiled by a shaykh of the Istanbul Findikzade tekke. In December 2002, finally, a collection of 24 items, with Turkish texts, kept in a separate, hitherto overlooked box, were registered as Codices Or. 26.237-60. They had been acquired from Dr Menno Hekker (see also the Introduction to Chapter 4, above), and had originally been purchased in Istanbul in 1971. A last item, Or. 26.261, was registered in the same month.

Cod.Or. 25.718 [Risale-i] ‘Uyünü l-hidaye j] An incomplete, late 19th-century copy of a treatise on the Twelve Imams, the Fourteen Innocents (ma ‘süm-i pak), and the doctrine of the ehl el-hakk, by the Bektashf shaykh ResmT ‘All Baba of Resmo (Rethimnon, Crete). The title is found in a heading preceding the text and in the colophon (p. 177) in which it is also suggested that the treatise is a translation of a work by the Imam Ja‘far [as-Sadfq, d. 148/763, cf. M.G.S Hodgson in Ef]. The name of the author, called ‘mütertimï [translator of it] here, occurs in the same heading and in the first line of the text. The first part of the introduction, about four pages, is lacking. The author, about whom almost nothing is known, probably flourished in the 18th century and also wrote a divan. A few marginal additions by the copyist. (For other copies of this text and references, see see Cod.Or. 12.436, above.) The work is followed by an anonymous mesnevi (15 distichs) in a different hand (last two unnumbered folios). Begins (p. 1, after a besmele, as in Cod.Or. 12.436, f. 3b:6):