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Catalogue entries: Götz II, 359-61, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 4052-3 (III, p. 304); Kut 373; TYTK (Stileymaniye, Mustafa A§ir Efendi) 931; Yardim 3740. Literature: see Götz II, p. 345.

Cod.Or. 17.910 A miscellany This volume is an exercise-book with chequered paper containing pious texts in Albanian and Arabic/Turkish, transcribed in Latin script, following Albanian orthographic conventions. The book was owned, and the texts in it copied, by Baba Veli (d. 1972), the last post-ni§in of the Bektashf tekke of Durbali Sultan at Farsala (see also Codices Or. 14.643, above, and 17.913, below). His name is found in colophons on pp. 49, 200, and 231. Blank pages in the book have been filled with Albanian annotations in pencil and ballpoint in a different, ugly, script, dated 1950-69. (1) pp. 1-49 Erqan name A collection of prayers in (transcribed) Arabic and Turkish with Albanian commentary. The title is found in p. 1:2. Begins (p. 1): ‘Bismilahi rrahmani rrahim Erqan name egirakëvet terxhumani, tikbent Bismilahi rrahmani rrahim... ’ It ends (p. 49): ‘qeremi ali piremez hynqar haxhi, Bektashi veli, Bellëm Sultan efendi lerëmëzën demëne qeremëne "hy hy" Colophon (ibidem, see plate): ‘mbaron erqan nameja Funt me përulësi përpara shënjëtorëvet Bi temam, dervishan, myhipan sadikan El fakir Babaveli