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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.562, cont., 14.563)

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Bound in tattered boards with flap and brown leather back and edges, later covered in black cloth; glazed paper in varying shades of cream; 110 folios; 210x150 mm, varying; varying margins; 11-21 lines; nesih, vowelled in parts, in various hands; occasional red rubrics; ta'lik in (7), with Arabic texts in vowelled nesih, red rubrics, triple dots, lines and borders; a colophon dated Zil-ka ‘de 1146 (April-May 1734) is found on f. 90a; without the name of a copyist. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.563 A miscellany Two quires, one of which is incomplete, and a loose leaf, of varying format and without binding; undated. (1-2) ff. lb-4b A copy of the Arabic poem al-Qasida al-Ldmtya ft at-tahwid, also known as Qasfdat Bad’ al-amali (these words occur in the first line), by ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Uthman al-Üshï (flourished c. 569/1173, cf. GAL I, p. 429). Accompanied by interlinear and marginal glosses in Arabic and Turkish (3a). (3) f. 6b-7b Various text fragments: calligraphic exercises with besmele formulae (6b, 7a), epistolary phrases (7a), geographical annotations (7b), with a diagram indicating the longitude and latitude of a number of towns: Vidin, Nikboli (Nikopol), Ruscuk