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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.646, cont., 23.647)

ceded, with the exception of the last one, by headings indicating the subject, or rather question posed. These questions range from ‘Is the work I have been doing beneficent or not?’ (i§ledigim i$ fyayir mi degil mi, p. 7) to ‘Will the buying or selling of this slave boy do any good or not?’ (yol gulam alub satmakda hayir var mi yok mi, p. 15) and ‘Will the intention aimed at whatever matter bring victory or defeat?’ (kangi ümüra miita ‘allik olursa olsun §ol niyetde olan galib mi maglüb mi, p. 28). Arabic texts of Koranic verses and their prognostic value (explained in Turkish) are written in the outer margins (with, again, the exception of p. 29). A copy of a similar text is found in the Istanbul Nuruosmaniye Library, No. 4092 (parts of the introduction are quoted in Ertaylan’s study, pp. 18-9; a facsimile of the first table, more ore less identical with p. 7 in our manuscript, is printed on p. 20). An unbound quire of eight leaves; white paper stamped with a circle, containing two flags and two (illegible) texts in Arabic script; 32 pages, elabrate original numbering 7-28 (see plate); 183x116 mm; partly vowelled nesih; borders (pp. 2- 3), the heading (on p. 4), and table quadrangles in red; without a date or name of a copyist. An owner’s seal is printed in blue in the margin of p. 21. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (p. 4, after a besmele): ... a jm> tuoi jj lr> ui o a Jj-Uj-U- . ' j _U I ^ ^ j*üj A I * * 4^iuJ ji jJbbT O LwJ > ^lJ j-0 V. ^ ^ jJj I * ~ ■ ^j ... i_j j) .,I j I jJ jlJti I <—J14 A mij I A \ m al a" j I

Literature: H. Massé, ‘Fal-name’, in EI 2 ; i.H. Ertaylan, Falname (Istanbul 1951).

Cod.Or. 23.647 A miscellany A collection of essays by Mehmed Niyaz! el-Misri (d. 1105/1693-4). A leaf is probably missing between ff. 6b and 7a, and a catchword has been omitted on f. 6b. They were copied by one copyist, a customs clerk from a village near Sivas, called Ahmed IJizir Efendi using the pen-name of Tevfik (see the colophon on f. 10a). A colophon with the date 18 Cem&iïl-ewel 1265 (11 April 1849) occurs on 6b.