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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 14.672)

Cod.Or. 14.672 A miscellany A notebook with texts in various hands. An owner’s inscription with a seal (dated 1228/1813) of es-Seyyid Siileyman Galib, a kdtib of the Defter-i hakani, with the date of 13 Safer 1234 (12 December 1818) is found on the second flyleaf, verso. Some of the inventories were updated until about 1840, possibly by his son Arif (cf. below), two signatures of whom are found on the first flyleaf, recto. Contributions by one, possibly more than one, later owner continued until the 1900s. Folios 43b-47b, 50b-76a, 77b-l 19b, and 122b-123b have remained blank, some others have been tom out. The manuscript contains a six-page (incomplete) description of the contents in English. We find the following items: (1) ff. lb-16a A survey of the administrative units of the Ottoman Empire; eyalets and livas are indicate in red, smaller units: kazas and nahiyes, listed in seven columns in black, with interlinear specifications in red. The survey is preceded by an introduction in red (lb), dated 11 Safer [1]234 (10 December 1818), explaining that the list was based on a mecmü'a of the late i'lüma el-Hacc ‘All Rtza Efendi, a katib at the Defterkane-i ‘amire kalemi, who in turn had copied the data from a mecmü'a of the late Fehim Efendi, katib of the Divdn-i hümdyün. From f. 13b, there follows a similar inventory with a survey of the number of ‘kiliflar’ (yeoman’s fiefs) per unit. Colophons with the dates 22 Safer [1]234 (21 December 1818) and Safer 1234 (November-December 1818) are found on ff. 13a and 16a respectively. (2) ff. 16b-17a An inventory in three columns, of the tombs of the Companions of the Prophet buried in Istanbul, with indications of the sites (‘ziydretgah’) where they lay buried (22 items). (3) ff. 17b-20b An inventory of the Ottoman Sultans, from ‘Osman up to ‘Abdulhanud [I], with data on each sultan’s birth, accension on the throne, period of reign, death and