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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.509, cont., 14.510)

Bound in gold-embossed boards with brown leather back in late-Ottoman style; the title is printed in gold on the back; cream paper without watermarks; (2)+3+72+2+365+4+(2) pages, original numbers in two series; 251x170 mm and 170x125 mm; 14 lines (the text of the play in two columns); without catchwords; nk'a; headings and rubrics in red; completed on 20 Receb [1]311/ 15 Kanun-i sani [1]309 (15/27 January 1894); without the name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription in pencil of Mehmed Bakir ‘Ulvan is found on the first original flyleaf, recto. Acquired from McBlain, antiquarian bookseller at Des Moines (Iowa, USA), August 1978.

The preface begins (p. 1): fLicI jAtfVUi kib-iLuiil u- 41 ,^3jj a j>«£JU jJt l^>- ajjl The play ends (p. 365):

Z.4J “i * Ji Ij 4i jjjl

Colophon {ibidem):

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V’* ^ 41 • i' u>-*l-* jpli ^ 0 ^ j Y\ \ 4 > hi V* a 1 j -\ I

Editions of the play: Cairo 1292 (Özege 2860, the date, found on the title page should be regarded as false, cf. Tansel’s article); Istanbul 1315, 1969 (in simplified Turkish).

Editions of the Preface: Istanbul 1305, 1309 (Özege 14356). Literature: Ömer Faruk Akim in Li; F.A. Tansel in El 2 ; Hikmet Dizdaroglu, Namik Kemal (Istanbul 1971).

Cod.Or. 14.510 Hiisn ü Dil t. . •. An undated copy of a translation in prose and poetry by Mahmud b. ‘Osman, with the pen-name of Lami‘1 (d. 938/1532) of a mystic-allegorical work by the Persian poet Fattahl of NTshapür (d. 853/1449-50). The name of the author occurs in f. 6a. 1, the title in f. 13a:8. The work is preceded by a lengthy introduction in which he praises his shaykh, BuharT, and dedicates the work to Sultan Selïm [I,