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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.124, cont.)

hadts on chess (satranc) with a heading in Turkish (ibidem); notes on the word or (42b, 8 and 5 lines); a note on tesfirr (enchantment) based on the authority of the Imam Ghazalï (43a, 2 lines); magical prescriptions for the acquisition of wealth and the enchantment of a person (ibidem, 12 lines); a note on the meaning of the letters found at the beginning of Koranic chapters (43b, 6 lines); various Arabic and Persian terms with Turkish explanations (44a-45a); a note on terms indicating death or a deceased person (45b, 4 and 8 lines); a note on the suffix -dur(ur) and various other glosses, mostly on religious questions in the form of questions and answers (49b, 8 items); a note on language (50a, 3 lines); a note on the three types of haml (7 lines) and a note on logic (mantik, 7 lines), both atributed to Davud Fazil (50b); a question and an answer (51a, 4 lines); a cross reference to page 28 ‘of our book Ümmetü r-rüh' (ibidem, 7 lines); two Arabic phrases on knowledge and religion, with Turkish glosses in smaller script (52a); a note on the ‘six causes’ (esbab-i sitte, ibidem, 8 lines); a note on the concept of tagawut, based on Taj al-adab (52b, 15 lines). The pages between ff. 56a and 74a, are filled with a plethora of short notes in Arabic and, occasionally, Turkish, and are clearly written by one of the owners. Among them, in Turkish: a fragment of a mesnevi in minute script (57b, 8 distichs); a prayer prescription (58a, 5 lines); a note on a legal question, based’on the authority of Abü Hamfa (58b, 7 lines); a series of diagrams showing classifications of various types in the field of philosophy, rhetoric, and religion, as well as a genealogical table of the prophets, with texts in Arabic and Turkish, in minute script (57b-62, 64a-65a, 66b-69a, 72a); fragments of poems (63a); and a parable (masal) figuring a fox and a hedgehog (63b, 21 lines). Turkish text fragments in different hands are found on f. 76a (on Arabic grammar, 9 lines), 76b (a line from a hadith with a Turkish gloss from the Tefsfr by Ebülleys, 11 lines), and 85a (two distichs by Ragib). Separate sheets of paper, sometimes pasted on pages of the volume, contain notes on Arabic grammar (in Arabic, between ff. 1-2); various fragmentary notes in Turkish and a quotation in Arabic from the work of Kemal Pa§azade (between ff. 26-27); and text fragments in Arabic (between ff. 36-37) Rebound in boards covered in marbled paper; the back and edges are covered in red cloth; glazed cream, occasionaly pink, paper; (1)+1 +85+(1) folios; 216x132 mm; various hands (see above); colophons by Salih b. Amed dated 13 Cema^il- ewel [1] 199 (24 March 1785) and 17 §a‘ban [1J193 (20 August 1779), are found