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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.856-7, 14.092)

Cod. Or. 12.856-7 Two boxes with positive black-and-white photographs of (12.856), a ledger (defter), filled in by hand, with a handlist of manuscripts preserved in the Feyzullah Efendi Library, Istanbul, and of (12.857), idem, of the Veliyeddfn Carullah Collection in the Millet Library, equally at Istanbul. The contents are described by, respectively, [the Orientalist and Persian scholar] Hellmut Ritter (on the first box, originally sent by him from the Arifi Pa§a Yalisi at Bebek, Istanbul, to Franz Taeschner in Minerva House, Cairo, probably in 1930 or 1931, and by Franz Taescher (on the second box). See on Franz Taeschner, the introduction to Chapter 2. Purchased from the firm of E.J. Brill, Leiden in April 1971.

Cod.Or. 14.092 Behcet el-lugat oLxlll <l*^j An undated copy of an anonymous Turkish-Arabic/Persian dictionary, which is an abbreviated version of the Lehcet el-lugat compiled by the seyhülislam, Mehmed Es‘ad Efendi (d. 1166/1752). The title is found on f. 2a. The name of the author occurs in f. 3a:2. The dictionary proper is proceeded by an introduction (2b-7b), which, among other things mentions sources and the fact that the work was composed between 1138 (1725-6) and 1145 (1732-3). It was dedicated to Sultan Mahmüd I, as is stated in both the introduction and the epilogue which follows the dictionary (184a-186a). The dictionary, which has the format of an alphabetically arranged glossary, is divided into 24 chapters (bab), further subdivided into a great many sections (fast). Turkish lexical items in red are followed by equivalents in Arabic and Persian (preceded by a red üs). The inner boards and the endpapers contain various jottings and annotations in different hands, among them various (parts of) sentences in Arabic and Turkish, calculations, quotations from hadith (in Arabic, lb), a (part of a) gazel (8 distichs, 186b), and the first lines of a story, headed ‘min el-‘acayib' (inner back-board). Bound in dark brown embossed leather; glazed cream paper; 188 folios; 210X130 mm and 145x80 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesta ‘lik, vowelled in the dictionary proper; headings, rubrics, and Turkish words (in the dictionary) in red, multiple gold borders within black lines; a simple headpiece in gold occurs on f. 2b; without a date and the name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription of ‘Abdullah