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1. Acquisitions in 1970 Fifteen Middle-Eastern manuscripts were bought from A.A. Fatatri on 25 May 1970 for ƒ1,250 (Codices Or. 12.300-15). Fatatri, a book trader of Egyptian origin and a resident of the city of Leiden, had already supplied the Leiden Library with hundreds of manuscripts in the 1960s (see the last chapter of Volume II of this catalogue). The manuscripts all contain main Arabic texts, but some volumes show fragmentary additions in Turkish. Two of the manuscripts were produced and later used in Central Asia (Codices Or. 12.310 and 12.315), the second contains annotations in Uzbek Turkish. Later in the year, between August and December, a, seemingly unique, collection of two succinct manuals for the composition of letters was acquired from the bookseller Kegan Paul of London. It had belonged to the library of Middle Hill House, Worcestershire, of the great book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). The manuscript had belonged to the library of the Augustinians at Rebdorf, Bavaria, and was later acquired by the Parisian bookseller and collector Charles Chardin, whose collection was dispersed in Paris in several sales between 1806 and 1824. The manuscript is described as ‘Modèles de lettres [en Turc]' in the catalogue of Phillipps’s library (p. 10). Literature: A.N.L. Munby, The Formation of the Phillipps Library up to the Year 1840 (Cambridge 1954); The Phillipps Manuscripts. Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, BT (London 1968).

Cod.Or. 12.300 A promissory note in Turkish The manuscript contains an anonymous (and unidentified) commentary in Arabic, entitled KitabMantiq, on al-Isdghajiby Athlr ad-Dln al-Abharf (d. 663/1265, cf. GAL I, p. 464), in its turn an Arabic version of Porphyry’s Isagoge. It was completed on 10 Ramazan 847 (1 January 1444), cf. the colophon on f. 32b. Owner’s inscriptions of Mustafa b. Halil and ‘Abdurrahman TakI (?) Efendizade are found on, respectively, ff. lb and 2a; seals of Mehmed §enf, to which ‘Kapancizade’ is added in pencil, and es-Seyyid Hafiz Ahmed Kamil occurs on, respectively ff. 2a and 2b. A price of 2 gurus is found on f. 2a; on the same page there is a promissory note in Turkish of ‘All Efendi for a debt of 60 gurus owed to a brother called Mehmed Efendi, dated 1 Muharrem 1248 (31 May 1832); the names of the witnesses, §irvanli ‘Abdurrahman Efendi and Monla Mehmed, are found in a postscript. Acquired from Fatatri, 25 May 1970.