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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 18.693, cont., 18.694)

Bound in boards with dark brown leather back and edges; glazed cream paper of varying quality, slight worm damage; 107 folios; 185x133 mm and 135x85 mm, varying; 9 lines; catchwords, partly lost by trimming; nesih\ headings and rubrics in red; without a date or name of a copyist. An owner’s inscription of Süleyman occurs on f. la. Acquired from Thomas Leeuwenberg, antiquarian bookseller at Tilburg, June 1985. Begins (lb, after a besmele): ... [(.j^I] lyjs jjT i)] I.nIv^j) Luul LI Ends (106b): «lit C. OJ jjl Jl] JJlj jL> j jnij] Q \ j I] (J ij Colophon (ibidem): ... \ i. jjLa< VA* *1 ^ j jl j_t. a i111 J*Li Catalogue entries: see Storey III/l, p. 66. Literature: Storey III/l, pp. 65-6.

Cod.Or. 18.694 Tuhfat al-hadfya iuol^JI An incomplete, late 17th-century copy of a Persian vocabulary with interlinear Turkish translations - they are lacking on ff. 13b-17a, and, for the greater part, on the final two pages (17b-18a). The (incomplete) title is mentioned in f. lb: 1. It is also known as Risala-i D&nistan from the first of the infinitives given. The vocabulary was compiled by a certain Muhammad b. Hajjï Ilyas, who completed the work in or before 791 (1389). The work is preceded by a Persian introduction, the first page of which is lacking in this copy, and consists of ten parts (qism, infinitives and other verbal forms), and four sections (fast, substantives under four subject-headings). The work proper is followed by additional sections on numerals (15b-16b); various brief phrases showing the flexion of verbs and adverbial nouns, as well as the names of the Persian months (18a). (For other copies of the work, see Codices Or. 167 and 1028.) Turkish glosses, partly lost by triming, occur in the margins of ff. 3b-4a; Persian numerals, 1 to 7, are written out in the margin of f. 18a. The last page (18b) contains a list of ‘well-known sayings’, headed Me§hürat-i müte'arif, and