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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.114, cont., 14.191, 14.192)

Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 792/1390), incomplete both at the beginning and at the end, and containing gazels rhymed in -t to those rhymed in -m. A part of the text is accompanied by a plethora of interlinear and marginal glosses in a different, minute script, particularly on ff. la-43b and 75a-105a. Some of these are attributed to the Ottoman scholar [Ahmed] Südï (d. 1000/1591-2 or after 1006/1598) who wrote a Turkish commentary on the Diwan (cf. Kathleen Burrill in Ef). Bought from Mrs. J.H. Pels Rijcken in February 1974.

Cod.Or. 14.191 Turkish glosses The manuscript contains two, undated, Arabic works: (1), ff. lb-49a, Murshidal- muta’ahhilln, a treatise on matrimonial customs, usually ascribed to Meluned b. Mehmed Kutbuddln el-iznilp (d. 821/1428, cf. GAL II, p. 225; and (2), ff. 50b- 51a, the well-known QasTdaLamvya (or Bad’ al-amali) by ‘ Abd Allah b. ‘Uthman al-Üshï (flourished in the middle of the 6/12th century, cf. GAL I, p. 429). Extensive Turkish glosses are found on ff. 48b-50a. (see for details, Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 304-6.) Purchased from Wasif ‘Abd ar-Rahman Shahid, 1974.

Cod.Or. 14.192 er-Risalet el-Muhammedtye An early 18th-century copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a popular didactic work on Islam and its dogmas by Mehmed b. Salih Yazici, better known as Yazicioglt Mehmed (d. 855/1451). It has the form of a long poem in mesnevf rhyme punctuated by kasides - there are 9008 couplets in all - and its principal subjects are the Creation, the life of Muhammad, and the Apocalypse. The full title is found in p. 519:11, but the poem is more generally and simply known as Muhammediye (as it appears in a heading on p. 3). The name of the author occurs in p. 5:3. Both the title and name of the author are also written in Arabic and Latin script in pencil on the first flyleaf, recto. The work is preceded by an introduction (pp. 2-5 - the first page, 14 lines are missing) and ends in a long epilogue Qiatime, from f. 501), containing a description of the author’s dreams in which the Prophet and his süfi master Shaykh HaccI Bayram appeared as well