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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.729, cont., 25.730)

I* I» A jj *11 H C-J J AÜ J (jj I "■ J t ** w 1r Catalogue entries: Karatay 1033 (?); Majda I, 20; TYTK (Süleymaniye, Mustafa A§ir Efendi) 728; Yardim 3542. Literature: 'OM II, p. 445; Divanlar II, pp. 433-4. *** Bound in embossed dark brown leather; glazed cream paper; 39 folios; 207x124 mm and 147x83 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; neat ta'lik; headings in red; multiple gold borders within black lines; two similar headpieces with floral motifs in gold, orange, blue, purple and white on ff. lb and 26b; copied by Hafiz Mehmed b. el- Hacc Mehmed Kankinvl, imam at a mosque in the palace quarter (mahalle-i sardy); (1) was completed on 20 Rebi'ii l-dfiir (?) 1189 (20 June 1775); an owner’s inscription in pencil of Handekzade Hasan Emin Efendi of Merzifon, dated 15 September [1J317 (1902) is found on f. la. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, 23 October 2000.

Cod.Or. 25.730 Risale fl ‘ilmi 1-ahJ.ak I ale. aJLuij An undated copy of a translation, possibly an autograph, of a concise, Arabic treatise on ethics by ‘Adud ad-Drn al-ïjr (d. 756/1355). (The original work may be al-ïjï’s Nür al-khallüq fl ‘Urn al-akhlaq, cf. GAL S II, p. 293, No. xii.) The translation was made by es-Seyyid Mehmed Ra§id (mentioned in lb:5-6) in the middle of 1200 (8-17 June 1786, cf. the colophon on f. 20a). The title is mentioned in the colophon, quoted below. Another title, Zehretii r-nydz, occurs on f. la and in a label pasted on the outer front-cover (but cf. below). No references to either title have been found and the work does not seem to be documented. It consists of an introduction (lb-2a) followed, as in the original according to the translator (2a: 2-3), by four chapters (makdle). The translation was made after the example of a well-known work in the same genre, Ahlaku l- ‘aldyi(by Kinalizade ‘All Qelebi, cf. under Cod.Or. 6804), as the translator also explains in the introduction.