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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.467, cont., 12.472)

found on the first flyleaf, recto. Purchased from Ad Orientem, St. Leonard’s, Sussex, England, on 2 October 1970. The first gazel begins (4b): I.Hf .*II -*■ I4i.q'iL ^aS Li U- * 4J3I ^ > J l2 di f aS a aJj jj The Saki-name ends (60b): !j j ... !_■ I cl , j j ... K a! jLu Lllj * jj ■■■!_» I £ I fl~, I,' I fjS A «,1'i LlLo Catalogue entries: CCO 714 (II, p. 129); Flemming 425 and Götz I, 476, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1989-91 (II, pp. 116-7); KIYK 72; Sarajevo 2715-6, 2747, 3004, 3103; Schmidt 1(2); Yardim 3678. Edition: by ibnülemin Mahmüd Inal, Istanbul 1334. Literature: HOP III, pp. 273-284; see also Götz I, p. 347; Liitfi Bayraktutan, §eyhülislam Yahya Efendi; Hayati, Ki^iligi ve Divam (Erzurum 1983).

Cod. Or. 12.472 Turkish notes A folded sheet of paper with tables and additional explanations in Arabic and Russian. Prominent are two tables in black and red on ff. 2a-b, with calendars for, respectively, the lunar years 1316-31 (headed ‘et-tevdrih el-islamïye', 2a) and the years the solar years 1873-1909 and 2000-2018 (headed ‘et-tevdrih er- Rümiye’, 2b). A colophon (2a) explains that the tables were drawn by a certain ‘Abdulmecfd el-fjatrazl (?) for ‘our brother’, the kazi‘Osman et-Tebrfzï (quoted below). Turkish pencil notes are added to the table on f. 2a in a later nk'a hand, probably by an Istanbul bookseller, beginning: ‘isbu takvim-name Rusya’da bulunan ehali-i kadime’nin ‘addet üzere simdiye kadar istïmdl edilmi$dir efendim...' Colophon (2a): jUlt 0 -Ai2ii im u ,^i■»_<■»«)! -vc. j.<2-cJI j-j °4-* i_o5 ... |jj nI hi ftII jiLaJ AÜI >i-c. jLJI Acquired from Galerie "de Sfinx" at The Hague, 10 February 1971.