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3. Acquisitions between October 1970 and 1980 Regular acquisitions continued in the 1970s. These comprised both gifts and purchases. A great number of items were bought from booksellers or at auctioneers, among them Ad Orientem of St. Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex, England (Codices Or. 12.465-7); Galerie "de Sfinx" in The Hague (Or. 12.472); E.J. Brill of Leiden (Or. 12.594, 14.338); Adab Books of New Cottages, Winterbum, Skipton, Yorkshire, England (Or. 12.606); W. van Gestel of Tilburg (Or. 12.654); Thornton & Son of Broadstreet, Oxford (Or. 12.829); David Loman of London (Or. 14.263-4, 14.304-4, 14.374, 14.515-7); Bonte Oudheden of Leiden (Or. 14.328); Jan Willem van Meeuwen of The Hague (Or. 14.435); Sotheby’s of London (Or. 14.367, 14.372, 14.591); Thomas Leeuwenberg of Tilburg (Or. 14.466, 14.481); McBlain of Des Moines, Iowa, USA (Or. 14.508-11); Hellmut Schumann AG of Zurich (Or. 14.518-9); Christie’s of London (Or. 14.599, 14.622); A.L. van Gendt & Co. of Amsterdam (Or. 14.610); and Dimitri Stamoulis of Grenoble (Or. 14.636-9,14.643 and 14.646, part of larger collection of twelve manuscripts with Arabic, Turkish and Albanian texts, bought for ƒ6000.-, at least a part of which seem to have belonged to the library of the Bektashf tekke of Qazim (Kasim) Baba at Farsala, at present in Greece). Codices Or. 14.508-9, 14.511 and 14.518 had earlier belonged to a certain Mehmed Bakir ‘Ulvan. In March 1971, Codices Or. 12.483-97 were bought from A.A. Fatatri, a Egyptian living in Leiden, who had earlier supplied the University Library (see the introduction to Chapter 1, above). They cost, in all, ƒ700.- and comprised mostly Arabic texts; Or. 12.486, 12.493 and 12.495, described below, also contain some Turkish material. An original copy of aferman dated 1323/1905 (Cod.Or. 12.503) was donated to the Library by Mrs. Pierik of Wapenveld. Other gifts were Or. 12.654 (photographs, by the Professor of Iranic languages in Utrecht); Or. 12.845, by the then keeper of the Oriental manuscripts at the Library, P.Sj. van Koningsveld; and Or. 14.244, by Professor R.B.C. Huygens of Leiden University, who had bought the manuscript in Damascus. Some items had their origins in scholarly collections, among them: Cod.Or. 12.583 consisting of ten hefty folders which contain various papers and photographs which had belonged to the German orientalist, Franz Taeschner (see Chapter 2, above); they, as had been the larger collection of his manuscripts, were acquired through the Leiden firm of E.J. Brill of Leiden in 1970. Another smaller collection of Taeschner’s photographs, Or. 12.856-7, was purchased through the same bookseller in April 1971 for ƒ40.-. Another important source of the scholarly type was the so-called Pels-Rijcken Collection, comprising 74 items in all (Or. 14.091-163), almost all consisting, apart from Or. 14.114, of