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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.377a, 14.379c, 14.385)

Cod.Or. 14.377a A fragment of a catalogue Six boxes with 128 sheets of paper, numbered in pencil, onto which entries describing Turkish manuscripts from the Latin catalogue of the Leiden Library Oriental MSS (CCO) have been pasted. The paper contains occasional additions in Latin, mostly in the handwriting of Professor M.J. de Goeje. It is part of a series of eight boxes with similar cuttings arranged according to language. These were meant to serve as samples for a new catalogue with separate volumes for the various languages involved. A Turkish catalogue was never realised. (See for further details, Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 470-1.) Registered May 1976.

Cod.Or. 14.379c A fragment of a letter A piece of tom paper with a fragment of an original letter in gold-dusted div&ni script, apparently a buyruldi (the word is mentioned in the text). It was found in the original leather cover of Cod.Or. 1542, an undated miscellany with Arabic texts, submitted for repair in 1976. (See for further details, Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 470-1.)

Or. 14.385 A collection of notebooks, documents and letters, related to the history of the Bektashf tekke of ‘Abdullah Magaviri at Cairo which existed between 1867 and 1965. Detailed descriptions of the contents and the historical background are found in F. de Jong, ‘The Takiya of ‘Abd Allah al-Maghawiri (Qayghusuz Sultan). A Historical Sketch and a Description of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Materials Relative to the History of the Bektashi Takiya and Order, Preserved at Leiden University Library’, in Turcica 13 (1981), pp. 242-60; and Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 473-9. The collection had belonged to the last head of the tekke, Ahmed Strri Dede Baba of Glinë, Albania (1895-1965), and was bought by F. de Jong, professor of Oriental languages at Utrecht University, from a Cairene bookseller in 1972; De Jong donated it to the Leiden Library in 1976. It includes