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ACQUISITIONS 1970-9 (Or. 12.466, cont.)

The third part (3) comprises: a series of tahmis on gazels by Ragib Pa§a (102a), Vehbr-i ewel (102b), NabT (103a), ‘Atif ReTs (103b), Vecdr (103b), Ramiz (104a), Na’ill (104b), ‘Arif Mün§ï (105a), YiisrT (105b), and ‘Asim (106a); a tercC-i bend (106b); five nazm/kasides in praise of the miiftf of Damascus, shaykh Muradzade, Dülgerzade Riza Eifendi, E§refzade, Sultan [‘Abdul]hamTd, and Istanbul [‘islambol’] (107a-110a); thirty kit 'as,, partly also chronograms, said on various occasions, for example, when receiving a piece of $eker böregi, in praise of a coffee house in Edime, and at the appointment of Yüsuf Pa§a to grand vizier (110a-112b); thirteen riddles, partly in Arabic and Persian, nearly all on names, found in the margins in red (112b-113a; and a ferd (113a). The Persian divan consists of gazels in the usual alphabetical order (113b- 125a); tahmis on gazels by Hafiz, Sultan Selim II, and Es'adzade $erff Efendi (125a-127a); and a mesnevi by Serif Efendi (cf. above). The colophon on f. 127b is followed by a distich on a fountain and a nazire to it ‘by the late Efendi’, both written in a hand different from the main text. Pencil annotations, mostly dates, by an owner are found on f. 129b, among them one recording the birth of a daughter called Hadlee (on Wednesday 26 November 1313/1898); and her death (on Monday 20 July 1314/1899). A pencil number ‘K 500 b’ occurs on the second flyleaf, recto. Bound in embossed dark red leather with flap, blind tooled ornamentation in Oriental style; glazed white paper; brown stains, especially on f. 15a-b; (2) + 129+(2) folios; 222x145 mm and 163x102 mm; 19 lines; catchwords; ta'lik; headings, rubrics and multiple borders in red; gold borders within red and black lines on ff. lb-2a; a headpiece with floral motifs in gold, red, blue, grey and yellow is found on f. lb (see plate); completed on 3 Cemazi s-sdni 1216 (11 Octover 1801); without the name of a copyist; owners’s inscriptions (la) of el- Ahmed Dervf§ (?), a hace at the Darussina‘a, who had also ordered the copying of the MS, dated 1216 (1801-2), and of ‘Abdülhalïm b. Ahmed b. Mahmüd, a halife at the kalem-i muhasebe-i siivari (with signature and seal), dated 10 ... 1222 (1807-8) - another note with a signature by him is found on f. 128b, in which it is stated that the grandson of the writer, Siddlk Efendi did him the favour of donating him the Divan, with the same date -; of (only partly legible) es-Seyyid Mehmed SaTd, with the same year; and of ‘AlTel-Cevad, with a seal and the date Safer [12]64 (January/February 1848). Purchased from Ad Orientem, St. Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex, England, on 2 October 1970. Begins (lb, after a besmele)