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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.757, cont.)

1051 (1641-2), when "on the night of the 30th of Ramazan... we entered the palace and the biiyiik oda...”. A gazel by Ahmed is found on f. 74a. Various administrative notes, dated 1051 (1641-2), and a statement that Eski Hüseyn arrived in Istanbul on 18 Zf l-ka 'de 1120 (29 January 1709), are written on the inner back-board. Remnants of a tattered folio, clearly belonging to the manuscript, are found between f. 23 and f. 24. The main texts are the following: (1) ff. lb-5b Asaf-name , --T An undated, incomplete copy of a well-known treatise on political ethics and in particular on the duties of the grand vizier by the beglerbegi and later grand vizier, Lutfï Pa§a b. ‘AbdulmuTn (d. probably 970/1562-3). The title and the name of the author are mentioned on the ‘title page’ (la), in a heading preceding the text on f. lb as well as in the introductory part of the treatise (lb:5 + 16). It consists of an introduction (lb-2a) with a passage on the writer’s career, and four chapters (bab). A brief description of the contents of the work is found in Imber’s article (cf. below). (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 923(1) and 1278(2).) Begins (lb, as in Tschudi’s edition): ■ 11 3 ^j i iti II <_)-£. qu ^2 « *5 (J3 mljl 4jT~i <i* jjj JjI Lj j JJ ... d. 11 f LuiL u i lr>) «III ->L_c. ‘ « -^.1 ^ * I j » .*K aJLoi j ... ... «lb t i ml dj * ml «ioJLfcj I LlJU <UL*uj Ends (20b, as in Tschudi’s edition, p. 45): *4JLuij 3J aj jjl An I 3 |ijJ>bl ... 3 ■•“ijl «J-» JJ» jAllj^JI ( aL^JU 3 1—lllMTll) ill « ijjtej+A»- aJjj»i« j-«J dljj<.~JI L>- 3 djj «lm>«JI ij ui ojjjüjI jL aJjI -■■■»- Ij 44>j ^ j I f 4ÜI Ljj b Catalogue entries: Flemming 211 and Götz II, 265-6, where other MSS are mentioned; see also $e$en II, 202/1, 203/1, 359/1; TYTK (Süleymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 110. Editions and translations: Rudolf Tschudi, Das Asafname des Lutjï Pascha nach den Handschriften zu Wien, Dresden und Konstantinopel (Berlin 1910); see for further details, GOW, p. 81.