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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.493, cont.)

(on ff. 29a [incomplete], 30a, 46a, 51a, 51b, 54a, 54b, 78a [see plate], 79b, 83a- 84a, 86b, 91b-95a, 96a). Prayers and Koran texts, mostly with a prescription for their (magical) use, are found on ff. 28b, 50b, 51a, 56b, 57a-b, 81a, 88a, 95b, 97b, and 98b. A series of mystical prescriptions, based on the authority of Aristotle, are found on ff. 30b-32a. Among the texts of a more random nature, we find: recipes (10a, 4 lines; 38b- 39a, for curing epilepsy; 58b; 69b; 76b, against coughing; 82b; 83a, ingredients for a ma'din; 85a, against colds, 3 items); poems (29b, a mystical gazel rhymed in -birdiir; 52a, a gazel by FennI; 52b, a quatrain, a beyt and a chronogram dated 1215/1800-1 by RecaTzade; 53a, a song headed ‘yörük beste’; 61b, various fragments, partly attributed to Fazil; 69b, a ferd, preceded by a model signature; 76b, four beyts; 77b, a rhymed aphorism on the consumption of coffee and theriac (see plate); 82a, four beyts; 98b, a beyt); fragments of letters (63b; 64a, concerning the transport of a number of slaves of the vali of Anatolia through the Morea (Peleponnese) with letters for a grand vizier, signed and with a seal of ‘Osman b. Hasan; 64b, three preambles; 65a, a preamble; 65b, a petition concerning irregularities in Kaynarca where the sender was muhafiz; 66a, two preambles; 82b, honorific titles, 4 items; 96b, a preamble); fetvas (69b; 70a, signed Mehmed Emin and Velï’üddïn; 70b; 71a, signed Meluned Sa‘ïd and Hasan; 98b, attributed to Ebüssu'üd, on Friday prayers); and an unidentified, probably magical, text, ascribed to Akoglizade (?) Hamm Efendi (60a). We also find various calculations (38a, of time units; 63b; 73a (see above); 79b-80a; 84a); administrative notes (81b, goods sold bought by ‘my son’ from Ahmed Aga, dated 24 Cemdzf l-ewel 1212/15 November 1797; 82a, dated 10 Zf l-hicce 1191/9 January 1778; 84b, partly dated 1196/1781-2; 85a, on the acquisition of coal; 85b, a survey of money received from various people); two lists of things which require other things (e.g. ‘government is impossible without politics’) and those which do not (e.g. ‘a lover does not need beauty’, 6 items, 82a); a list of the Dwellers of the Cave (82b); a list of saints (83b); a list of plants grown in a garden, dated 1 Muharrem 1113 (= 1213?, 15 June 1798), various tailed signatures (86b); a prescription for cutting and folding letterpaper, based on a hadith (87b); a fragment of a Risdle-i Beha’iye (on how to pray) with a Persian beyt (87b). Arabic texts - prose and poems - we finally find on: ff. 2b (concluded by a Turkish line, on the nature, hawass, of the besmele), 39b-50a (various texts, prayers and poems, mostly, it seems, of a magical nature, 56b (a prayer), 59a, 88b-91a, and the inner back-board (a fragment).