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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 14.672, cont.)

age at their demise. The last year mentioned is 1255 (1839) when ‘Abdulhamid acceded to the throne (see plate). (4) ff. 21a Administrative notes, partly in siyakat script, concerning feudal land and vakfs (seven items), dated [1] 14-3 (1730-1) to [1]217 (1802-3) (see plate). (5) ff. 22b-31b An inventory, in two columns, of, according to the heading in red on f. 22b, vakfs founded by sultans, viziers, statesmen and shaykhs. It was copied from the mecmii’a of Enls Efendi, who in turn had copied the entries from the index to bound volumes preserved at the Defterhane-i ‘amire. The last date, found in the penultimate entry, is Muharrem [1]250 (May-June 1834). (6) ff. 32a-33b An inventory of villages belonging to Imperial vakfs in the sancak of Aydin, arranged by kazd. (7) ff. 34a-40a A collection of texts concerning the Bayramfye order of dervishes. It consists of a pedigree showing the succession of Haccf Bayram Veil down to e§-§eyb ‘Abdulgafur b. ‘Abdullah, dated 1176 (1762-3, ten names, 34a); a poem or song (10 distichs, commencing ‘bilmek istersin sen seni’, 34b); biographical data on a number of shaykhs quoted from Semerdt el-fu’ad [by San Abdullah Efendi, d. 1071/1660-1, cf. ‘OM I, p. 101] with extensive passages on Ak §emsüddïn, Haccf Bayram Veil, Yazicizade Mehmed Qelebi and Üftadezade ibrahfm Efendi (34b- 40a). (8) ff. 40b-43a A collection of texts on the Mevlevfye order of dervishes. It consists of: biographical notes on Celalüddïn Rümi, Sultan Veled and Arif Qelebi (40b-42a, many interlinear and marginal corrections in red occur on ff. 40b-41a); and a survey of the shaykhs succeeding Celalüddïn Rümï, from Husamuddfn Qelebi to