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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 18.259, cont., 18.691)

Donum Cl. Viri D. Abbatis de Guilly P. Steph. Soucier e. Soc. Jesu'. This indicates that the manuscript originally belonged to the Collége Louis-le-Grand at Paris, which comprised a school for the education of jeunes de langue. It was reorganized in 1762, following the expulsion of the Jesuites from France in the same year (for another manuscript from the same library, see Cod.Or. 2067; for references see also Vol. II, the Introduction to Chapter 10). A note stating ‘Paraphe au desirde I'arrest du 9. juillet 1763', with a signature of Mesnil (also found in Cod.Or. 2067), occurs on the last page (367b). Rebound in a gold-embossed dark brown leather cover in Western style; glazed white paper; 1+369 folios, numbered 1-368 (242 occurs twice); 93x70 mm; 7-9 lines; catchwords, partly lost by trimming; small nesih, mostly vowelled and in different hands; headings, rubrics and dots in red (lacking between ff. 169a-204b), occasionally also in (oxidized) gold; multiple (oxidized) gold borders and varicoloured marginal illuminations on ff. 30b-31a; without a date or name of a copyist. Acquired from Sotheby’s, London, 16 April 1984.

Cod.Or. 18.691 Two Persian-Turkish vocabularies Both works were copied by Pin b. Oruc in 898 (1492-3). Three distichs and pencil notes on titles and a price by a bookseller are found on f. la; a list with book titles (26 items) occurs on f. 99b. (1) ff. lb-68a Miftah el-luga ajJJl £ Li* An early copy of a Persian-Turkish dictionary by Shaykh Mahmüd b. Edhem of Amasya (cf. ‘OM I, p. 160). The title is mentioned in f. 2a:8 and in the colophon (68a). The name of the author occurs in f. 2a:6. The work was completed in 896/1491 and dedicated to Sultan Bayezfd II (ruled 886/1481-918/1512). The work is preceded by an introduction consisting of a preface (lb-2a), and a prologue (mukaddime, 2a-9b) with a grammar of the Persian language consisting of two parts (fast) on derivation (iftikak) and conjugation (emsile) respectively. The dictionary is divided into two chapters (bab). The first, alphabetically listing