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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.110, cont.)

(6) p. 1 (second series) An Arabic poem of three distichs with a Turkish prose translation. Begins: JL*-j LUis t_»Ujl ... LuuJI l^sLi. j LaaII Ij*it- * I-. u« $l*.j Jj AüS J ItÏ aS jJ jIj (7) pp. 2-26 (second series) Mtzanii l-'ukela li-temyizi l-fuzala j ..i ms.ii ^ . T A treatise on the Nak§bendfye tarikat and its rules. A lengthy conclusion Uptime) is dedicated to gikr (from p. 11). The title and the name of the author are mentioned in a heading preceding the text. In the one other manuscript copy documented, Fihris 1037, the work is said to be a translation by Vamik §iikri of the Arabic original of the same title (not mentioned in GAL) by the vizier and resident of Istanbul, Seyyid Fail Pa§a b. el-Gavs ‘Alev! b. es-Seyyid Mehmed b Sehl (d. 1318/1900-1).

Begins (p. 2, after a besmele): Ul ... 3 jUjiU L>[I]aa ^—ii i>.‘ «»•»>< jiSI Ó-» Ij» Cj-ib-w j t_j ji c-Jli» ^ - Ends (p. 26): ***> jAjjixu jJLc. u4 1 44 jl>»■« I j k_»j Ls^t Colophon (ibidem): Ai»w« LL a lij.» jdLo lh «ISI u _- j+iiJI ajj*. 2=^ ^ >>*a \ 0 f <lJLc *<ob_u/l ^«T ujLiL [dial ^>1 4J JLt-d I t", »IL Catlogue entry: Fihris 1037 (I, p. 271).

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Bound in boards covered in grey and red marbled paper with green linen back; cream and pale green paper; 2+40+40+40 pages, with original numbers (two