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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.578, 14.579, 14.580)

Cod.Or. 14.578 A title and a list of Muhammad’s features (partly) in Turkish This manuscript contains a collection of twenty-three Arabic treatises by the Ottoman scholar and seyhiilislam, Kemal Pa§azade (d. 940/1534, cf. GAL II, pp. 449-53,; V.L. Ménage in Ef), copied by one and the same copyist. The year in the last colophon (on f. 190b) was omitted (although the word ‘sene' was not). The title Res&’il-i Kemal Pa$azdde occurs on the ‘title page’ (la), as does the invocation ‘Yd haflz yd Kebikeg ya Allah’, and owner’s inscriptions of ‘Abdur rahman Efendi and Ebübekir ed-Dramavf, residing at the medrese of Hammamza- de in 1146 (1733-4). A survey of the features (hilye) of the Prophet consisting of Arabic words with interlinear Turkih explanations in smaller script, followed by a eulogy of Muhammad, also in Turkish, are found on the last flyleaf, f. 191b. Acquired from S.H. Alié, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.579 Turkish poems and a prescription This manuscript contains a copy of an Arabic work on Hanafite jurisprudence entitled Muhtasar al-Quduri, by Abü 1-Husayn Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Qudüiï (d. 428/1037, cf. GAL I, pp. 174-5, S I, pp. 295-6). It was copied by IsmaTl b. Ibrahim, known as Dedezade, on 10 Zil-hicce 1016 (27 March 1608). The last two unnumbered pages of the original manuscript contain seven Turkish poems (kit‘as and miifreds) by Me§amT and Kemal Pa§azade (cf. Cod.Or. 14.568, above); a Persian distich with a Turkish prescription ("if a person is overwhelmed by sorrow, he should read it three times..."); and an owner’s inscription (written upside down in Arabic) of Ahmed b. ‘AIT, kait at Üsküdar. Acquired from S.H. Alié, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.580 A miscellany A collection of two main works in Arabic and Turkish, both produced by one