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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970 (Or. 12.313, cont., 12.315)

45 kurus in befliks for three sheep and twelve goats at Balak, kaza of Erüh. Acquired from Fatatri, 25 May 1970.

Cod.Or. 12.315 Annotations and a mesnevi in Turkish The manuscript contains an Arabic work on jurisprudence, Jami‘ ar-rumüz, a supercommentary by Shams ad-Dfn Muhammad al-Kühistanï (d. c.950/1534 or 962/1554, cf. GAL S I, p. 648, g) on al-Marghinanï’s al-Hidaya (cf. GAL S I, p. 645). It was completed in 941 (1534-5), cf. the colophon on f. 355a. The introduction to the work (ff. lb-2a) mentions the Shaybanid sultan, Abü 1-GhazI ‘Ubayd Allah Bahadur Khan of Khorasan (ruled 940/1534-946/1539), to whom apparently the work was dedicated. The endpapers contain Arabic, Persian and Turkish (partly Uzbek) text fragments, among the latter: a prayer prescription, quoted from a Tefsirü l-beyan (355a, 4 lines); a prayer prescription (356a, 9 lines); two notes, dated 1842 and 1875, the first, on a solar eclipse (‘kuyas tutuldi karangu olub’) on 25 Cemagi l-ewel which lasted an hour - clearly a sign from God - and the second concerning the weekday, Sunday, on which the ‘id-i kurban fell, and the appearance of the crescent moon in March (3 lines); a prayer prescription (356b, 7 lines); a note concerning the weekdays on which spring began ‘in this country’ (‘bu yurtda’) in the 69th and 75th year [of the 19th century?] (357a, 4 lines); and a poem in mesnevi rhyme (357b, 39 distichs in Ottoman Turkish) - it begins: sLdi (^1 j.» t-jiLS or? £.■*-* O"J-* Ends: >» jjJjl yjfc>» j>£j aJLJh usLo A note in pencil on the birth of a son called Yar Ahmed (later replaced by ?) on 22 June [1]336 (1918) is found on f. 364b, 2 lines, written upside down); a note on important dates in 1886 occurs on the inner back-board (2 lines). Acquired from Fatatri, 25 May 1970.