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ACQUISTIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.155, 17.157)

Cod.Or. 17.155 Turkish glosses and verses This manuscript contains a page (lb) from an Arabic work on grammar, followed by the final part (from f. 3a) of the same work but in a different hand: a gloss by Haccf Baba b. ibrahlm at-Tosyavl (flourished in the middle of the 15th century, cf. GAL II, p. 223), on the Kitab al-‘Awamil al-mi’a by ‘Abd al-Qahir al-Juijam (d. 471/1078, cf. GAL I, p. 287. A title, Shark ‘Awdmil, is found on the ‘title page’, f. la. The inner boards and the endpapers contain various notes, a few of them in Turkish: a few glosses and two distichs (inner front-board); another four distichs, three of which are copyist’s verses (la); another copyist’s verse in red and black: ‘kalem feryad eder aglama mürekkeb/ bana cahil yüzin gösterme yd reb' (lb); and a distich (final flyleaf, recto). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.157 A collection of traditions and stories

This late 18th-century copy is anonymous and lacks a title. It is preceded by a brief introduction in which the compiler informs the reader that he wrote down the traditions and stories (ahadfs-i §ertfe ve hikaye-i latjfe) for a didactic purpose, to soothe the heart and purify the wicked thoughts of his readers. The items are numbered, in Turkish and Arabic, up to twenty-nine (on f. 38b). A few marginal additions on ff. lb-2a, among them the inscription ‘vakf (twice, lb), it also occurs in front of the besmele preceding the text on the same page. The inner boards and endpapers contain a series of jottings and text fragments, in Arabic and Turkish, in various hands, among them a note stating that it had begun to snow after winter had set in (kdsimden sonra) in 1209 (1794-5), and that the kaii and mutesellim of Uji9e (Uiice) and their companions had moved elsewhere (inner front-board, 2 lines, written upside down); the preamble to a petition sent from a village near Loznica (la, 2 lines) - other epistolary quotations on the page have been faded to illegibility; another two preambles are found on the inner back-board (3+2 lines). Between the pages some slips of paper in varying format are found with annotations in Arabic and Turkish, mostly in minute pencil script. A prayer prescription with a heading in red is found on a