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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.637, cont., 23.638)

(5) ff. lllb-131b A treatise on astrology This anonymous work is divided into unnumbered sections (fast), from the first, on knowledge about the ‘circumstances of sultans’, their birth and enthronement (112a), to ‘the symptoms indicating war (ahkam-i harb)' (130a). Begins (111b): J$l L yu aJul (Jjya-ö <Uiü t—jJUa L*l ... j^x p I JUu UI jJ JU) gJUfi» it ‘11II lr> ^1" k 3 Ends (131b): i_» jaj I a 'j - Li j a -iL I [S] *_> JX>* i'ij'i ^Jk Ldi jU 4JI a5 Lai JjLlsnj alc.1 ^Lsü *LI $ ajj.i |»l£»1 aj>£ l£l t J.kt II in (jjj Al> C*a5 j^aVI [?]

♦♦♦ Bound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with a red leather back; white paper with partly visible watermarks, glazed from f. 1 to f. 40; 131+(1) folios with original numbers; 203x143 mm and 156x74 mm, varying, to (3) 158x89 mm, varying; 17 lines; nesifi, deteriorating in quality from f. 49 onwards; headings and rubrics in red; double borders, omitted on f. 44a; without a date or name of a copyist. Acquired from the Goetheanum at Domach, July 1996.

Cod.Or. 23.638 A miscellany This volume contains a collection of texts on mysticism. All, apart from the last, were copied by Mehmed EmTn Tevfik, whose name appears in colophons on pp. 67, 102 and 83 (second series), in 1308 (1891). His seal is also printed next to the last two mentioned colophons. His name also occurs as Mehmed Emin b. el- Hacc ‘All, known as Nazillivf, in a colophon on p. 78.