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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.719, cont.)

Imam ‘All (13a-14b; printed edition: pp. 15-6); a mersiye on the death of the Imam Hiiseyn (14b-17a; printed edition, pp. 16-9); mersiyes (17a-20a; printed edition: pp. 19-22); a miiseddes (20a-21b; printed edition: pp. 22-4); a medhfye-i mü§tereke on the EmTr Kazim (21b-23a; printed edition, pp. 24-6); a miiseddes-i mii$terek, idem (23b-25a; printed edition, pp. 26-7); a kasïde-i ‘adem (25b-27b); three kasides, incomplete (25b-31b; printed edition, pp. 28-35); the final lines of a chronogram, dated 1268 (32a; printed edition, p. 98); four chronograms, incomplete (32a-b; printed edition, pp. 98-9); 80 gazels, the last part from the rhyme letter mfm, incomplete (33a-51b; printed edition: pp. 161-83); kit‘as (52a- 59b; printed edition, pp. 183-92); misra's (60a-61a; printed edition, p. 193); two quatrains (61a-b; printed edition, p. 193 - not specified as such); matla's and miifreds (61b-64b; printed edition, pp. 193-7); a chronogram on the completion of the divan (61b; printed edition, pp. 197-8). A few erasures, and marginal additions in the hand of the copyist (39a, 63b-64a). Eight hemistichs are written upside down on the first flyleaf, verso. Bound in gold-embossed dark brown leather; light brown paper, partly damaged and stained, and worn at the edges; some tears have been papered over; 5-kuru$ post-stamps dated 1972 are found on ff. 43b and 64b); (l)+65+(l) folios; 242x170 mm and 164x124 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesili; headings and rubric is red; multiple gold borders within black lines; headpieces with floral motifs in, respectively, gold, blue, red, purple, and gray, and in gold, red, purple, green and grey, occur on f. 2b (see plate) and f. 25b; completed by es- Seyyid Hafiz Salih er-Riza’I, imam of the artillery corps at the fortress of Vidin, without date. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, 29 September 2000.

Begins (2b, after a besmele, as in the edition, p. 2): Lt 3 |j_i hi >»i *—i j L * Tjjb j 3 jjix. 3 uj L Ends (64b, in the edition on p. 298): l»Lü lJ9 j-iI u-« <L><jJ i&aJL) I * (jJLio jl3 |£a1j 3-uj

Edition: Istanbul 1278.