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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.409, cont.)

original numbers in red pencil; 186x120 nun and 136x72 mm; 15 lines; catch words; vowelled calligraphic nesih; multiple gold borders within red and black lines; headings and rubrics in red; gold discs; a precious headpiece with floral motifs in gold, blue, pink, green and red (lb); completed by es-Seyyid ‘Abdurrahman el-Hilml, a student of ‘All el-Vasfi on 7 §a‘ban 1257 (24 September 1841); a vakf inscription in Arabic, stating that the emir Halil Aga, in the service of the sultan’s mother, consigned the manuscript perpetually to the library of the el-Hüseynï medrese, dated 7 Zfl-ka'de [12]92 (5 December 1875), with his seal, occurs on f. la; other imprints of the seal are found on ff. 2a, 9a, 16a, 24a, 37a, 44a, 58a, 65a, 70a); the word ‘vakf is occasionally found in the upper margins (see plate). Acquired from Dr Qasim al-Samarra’I, January 1977. Begins (lb, after a besmele): .* 1 * I r a j ,,, ■ ■ r I j L5 j j t II lr> 11 lil^> ^ Ul aLI JL>- |»lc.

Ends (65a): j»*<- I 3 Jj»l y-i» «JU» 3 |»UI r I ajjS 4j.*iLai 3 ...

The appendix begins (ibidem): ^JLaj <0)1 Ju i4Lü 4-o^S a»> all! jJ *1> AaaJI ^ 3 4jAiI At> jj

Ends (79b): ,k>JI i»>*’ H* u* ü'-*** lM •>*>* 3 (_jbül >~i aï ^«Jbül t_ij <dl Atxll 3 (jit* 3 LJ-* W

Colophon (70a): w - (jJLc. jLjJI I a J>»- V \ YflV 4jLui ajLS^JU cli jir» «r-'LSj Catalogue entry: Sohrweide II, 39. Editions: see Sohrweide, p. 42.