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Cod.Or. 14.372 Aferman An Imperial Order addressed to Muhammad ‘All Pasha [ruled 1220/1805-1264/ 1848] confirming the appointment of George Barney (? jL t0 British consul-general for Egypt and its scales on request of the Ambassador at Istanbul, Lord Ponsonby d. 1855, cf. DNB XLVI (1896), p. 86], dated the middle of Cematf l-ewel 1257 (30 June - 10 July 1841). The note ‘sicill-i mahfuza kayd Siid’ is found in the right margin. Tailed signatures are still vaguely visible, recto. Cream paper pasted on linen, 580mm x 540 mm, 10 lines, bold drvdnC, text headed by a tugra of ‘Abdulmead I. Purchased at Sotheby’s, April 1976.

Cod.Or. 14.374 Turkish glosses This manuscript contains an undated copy of at-Tarïqa al-Muhammadiya by Birgili Mehmed Efendi (d. 981/1573, cf. GAL II, p. 440). The text is accompanied by a plethora of Arabic and, occasionally, Turkish interlinear and marginal glosses. The manuscript contains a slip of bluish paper with a fragment of a Turkish letter, dated 1284/1867-8 (4 lines, mostly lost by cutting). (See for further details, Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 466-8.) Acquired from David Loman Ltd., London, in 1976.