726

ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.758, cont.)

Qelebi (69b); two muhammes in Turkish with an identical series of four refrains ascribed, in a heading preceding the text, to Beha’I (they are more likely tahmïses by Veysï on verses by the poet mentioned as both are ending in ‘bu matem-hane ey Veysf saray-i olur bir gün’, f. 70b); a quatrain and two songs in the makam ‘arzibar, all three in Turkish (71a); two anecdotes (latife) in Arabic and Turkish (4+5 lines), the latter figuring the $eyhiilisldm Yahya Efendi (d. 1053/1644) and the late Veysï (d. 1037/1628); a prayer prescription in Turkish with invocations, accompanied by interlinear numbers, in Arabic (73a); and a prayer instruction in Arabic, based on the authority of shaykh Baha’ ad-Dïn al-Kurdl (73b). (8) ff. 74a-77a

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X* S JUaai

A mid 18th-century copy of a moralising kastde by Üveys Efendi el-Mevlevf who used the pen-name of Üveysï (flourished in the early part of the 17th century). The title and the name of the author are mentioned in a heading preceding the text on f. 74a. The work is also known as Nasihat-i islambol (cf. HOP III, pp. 210-8, with a partial translation of the poem). Begins (74a): ay+u jj_uu I * a LSI tUUjI 3- 1 * **’* <1^1 l_i > ^ I L> I ^LU I Ends (77a):

Colophon (ibidem) :

\ S VV a *i m lj ajx uJj ■ y

(9) ff. 77b-8la A collection of poems II This collection includes two gazels by EmrT (77b); two gazels by Mukhtasham (in Persian, 78b); gazels by Fevrï, Sirrï (79a), Nef‘ï, Kadrï (79b), Emrï (with interlinear numbers in red), and Safi (80a); a tahmis by Cenabï Qelebi (80b-81a). (10) ff. 81b-82a Three fetvds by Ebüssu‘üd.