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designates the manuscript as a mecmu'a, and a seal of Salih [b. Ahmed] is found on f. la. He was also the copyist of the longer texts - his name appears in colophons on f. 16b and 27b (to a quotation from a mecmu'a by es-Sivasï, copied in the medrese of Bayezfd in Sivas) - as well as a great number of the more fragmentary ones. Seals with the name of Murad are found on ff. 2a and 23a. Among the more substantial Turkish texts we find- ff. 2b-16b Risale-i irade-i ciiz’tye *«aIjI *<üLu>j A copy of a treatise on the restricted voluntary powers of men by Mehmed b. Mustafa el-Akkermanl (d. 1174/1760-1). The heading Risale min el-'akdyid li’l- Akkermani is found in a heading on f. 2b. The work consists of an introduction (2b) and eight chapters (fast). This copy was completed by Salih b. Ahmed on 13 Cemdgi l-ewel [1] 199 (24 March 1785). (For another copy and references, see Cod.Or. 12.425, above.) Begins (2b, after a besmele): J- “ * 'i r ^ V* Ul ... |»5LuJI j a jl.r-nll j (j_- ■»II « H j jjj ^-wll a AüjLa j> Ca aIjI f aLa. JL*_3 I 4£ jJLjl aI>« ^LajiïVI ... aS a jLj 4II 1 nj j-i aJjI Ends (16b): “ t ]rk_. . 11 aJj I a AA li Jjl ^aJjI 11 a aaajLui - A^a ja» CL> aljl •i>j amJü jjjJjl jAi jJ Colophon (ibidem): ) ^ ^ A* til \ Y L>- f .laJ-l jjj I 5JL0 AJ u I r .-. ff. 17a-23b A series of texts, each beginning with the phrase ‘ma'lüm ola ki’, by the same copyist, on related subjects: a brief essay on fate (kazd, kader, 17a-b); it begins: aLSjU, ur*» AaLI 3 ja ^ jkti’l jAÏ 3 Lai aS aJjI ajJjl* j^ISLéL# a brief survey of four various schools of thought (mezahib), among them those of the ehl-i siinnet (18a); a brief essay on the basic concepts of Islam, based on the fetvas of HattabI and el-HayalT (18b-19a); it begins: ja Ai-iL uaIaJL ja^j cJL 3 ói-» ** ji* oa^JUa. aS aJjI