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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.556)

Cod.Or. 14.556 A miscellany This collection of texts, many of them incomplete, found in a tattered volume, was written by more than one copyist. Some parts seem to have belonged to other manuscripts. There are two colophons, on ff. 118a and 161a, with 18th-century dates, see below. Some of the writing is extremely crude. Pious phrases in Arabic, and jottings in $ikeste are found on the inner front-board. (1) ff. la-b Uutbe-i nikah ***Oaj>- A wedding prayer in Arabic and Turkish, written in two columns. The title is found in a heading in red. Begins (after a besmele): aJI j M — 'r Laui mil j CjIjI*«->11 j *111

(2) f. 2a A prayer in Arabic, in two columns, preceded by an obscure heading (perhaps to be read as a ij») in red. (3) ff. 2b-4b Namaz niyetleri An anonymous treatise, in Arabic and Turkish, on the formal resolve preceding prayers. The title, in full Namaz niyetleri beyan var, is found in a heading on f. 2b. (4) ff. 5a-32b. A treatise, without title and incomplete at the end, on the tenets of the Islamic faith by ‘All b. Birrf b. Yüsuf (mentioned in f. 6b:7-8), about whom no documentation has been found. It is preceded by an introduction, including a preface, in which the author states that some of his ‘brethren in the faith’ had requested him to write the work (5a-7b). The last catchword (32b) has been