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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.152, 17.153)

Cod.Or. 17.152 A miscellany This, seemingly, incomplete, small, undated volume, undated, contains a series of text fragments in various hands, mostly Arabic quotations from hadith. Added notes in pencil are hardly legible, minuscule scripts are found on the remaining half of the first flyleaf, and on ff. la, 2a, 2b, 4a, 4b, lib, 12a, 13b, 14a, 15b, and 16a. There are also some Turkish fragments: a prayer instruction (1 line, lb); a series of questions and answers (‘if someone asks you, what is that on your head, the answer is: the pen of power... ’ ibidem, 2 lines); a text, partly consisting of abstract symbols and digits, for a talisman with an explanation for its use (2b), a distich (?) on being a gentleman, ‘gelebilik’ (3a, margin); a prayer prescription (5 lines, 12b), with brief information for its usefulness (5 lines); a statement concerning a dowry (mehr-i mil ’eccet) of 2000 ak$e to be paid to a daughter of ‘All (11+2 lines, 13a); a note on prayers and a fragment of a tezkire with a signature (9 lines, 14a); a series of fragments of various prescriptions (14b); recipes for black dye and an aphrodisiac (9+8 lines, 15a-b), with lengthy marginal additions (on f. 15a), partly lost by paper damage; another recipe for an aphrodisiac, in which owl’s eyes are used is found on f. 16b (9 lines, with marginal additions, partly illegible by paper damage). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.153 A miscellany This undated volume contains two main works copied, it seems, by different scribes. The first, (1) ff. 3b-20a, is a copy of an Arabic commentary on the Koran entitled Anwar at-tanzil wa’asrar at-ta’wil - the title is mentioned in f. 4a: 18 - by Abü SaTd Nasïr ad-Drn al-Baydawf (d. 685/1286, cf. GAL I, p. 417). (2) ff. 2lb-3 la Zübdetü n-nasayih Sajj A treatise on pious advice. The title is mentioned in a heading preceding the text.