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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.762, cont.)

‘AIT Efendi); p. 137 (two Arabic prayers); p. 142 (an Arabic prayer); p. 157 (an Arabic prayer and a Turkish prayer prescription); and 158 (a ‘horse prayer’ attached by Ebüssu'üd to the neck of the horse of Sultan Siileyman, and various other items). Some of the prayers were explicitely meant to be used as talisman texts; annotations in Arabic and Turkish, often with drawings, of this type are found on pp. 8, 79, 97, 136, 138, 139 (magic formulae ascribed to Ja'far Sadiq), and the inner back-board (with a drawing of a puppet and a needle directed towards it). We also find texts, mostly chronograms, on (quasi-)historical events: a chronogram (hemistich) related to the war against Austria (1203/1788-9) (p. 2); a chronogram by Hüdayï on the foundation of a fountain, dated 976 (1568-9) (p. 4); a story on a meeting of shaykh ilahl to Sultan Siileyman at Akhisar in 922 (sic, 1516 - meant is probably 933/1526-7) and the former’s onomantic predictions, among them that the dynasty would last until 1400 (1979-80) (p. 85); a series of notes on the Mosque of SeydT Beg near the Süleymanïye (in Istanbul) and its inscriptions (dated 977/1569-70 and 1214/1799-1800) (p. 114); a series of chronograms on various events, from the birth of Adam to the death of the musahib Mustafa Pa§a (p. 134); various chronological tables, ranging from the era of Adam to the succession of Selim [III] (p. 144); lists of historical events, among which a table of the Ottoman sultans, and chronograms on the birth (1132/1719- 20) and death (1202/1787-8) of shaykh Siileyman Mustaklmzade (p. 150), Quotations of poetry are found scattered throughout the volume: 14 miifreds (p. 3); two miifreds, one of which is a chronogram on the departure of Siileyman with a rifle and a gun, joining a military campaign, dated 1183 (1769-70), as well as a kit'a (p. 4); two ildhis, a gazel by GaybT (shaykh Sun‘ullah Efendi) - a nazire (?) by Cemal is added in a minute script - two beyts, and a fragment of a kasfde by Nevres (p. 32); an Arabic qasida preceded by an introduction with a talismanic drawing (pp. 37-8); an Arabic quatrain, with Turkish explanation, and a Persian ghazal (p. 45); an Arabic ghazal and an ilaht by HilmT Efendi (p. 59); gazels by (Jöca Fena, RiyazT and §ehri (p. 60); a terd'-i bend by Rühï-i Bagdad! (17 numbered stanzas, pp. 60-5); gazels by Kabülï (p. 65), Ahmed! and Kemal Pa$azade (p. 66); two kit‘as (p. 66); a song, two gazels and an ilahi by Hiida’T (pp. 67-8); four kit'as, headed ‘ir§ad-i Neccarzade Efendi’ (p. 71); na'ts by Rü§enï and Gazal!, and a beyt (p. 72); a miinacat attributed to Ebüssu'üd (p. 81); a na't and various songlines and fragments by Beha’! Mehmed b. ‘AzTz, dated 1023 (1614-5) and 1064 (1653-4), a gazel by ilahl (Selim III, with a note on his enthronement in 1203/1789, a gazel rhymed in ‘kahve’ by Zari (p. 116); a gazel with 18 numbered lines by Vahy! (a postman of the hangah of Koca Mustafa