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ACQUISITIONS OF 1979-9 (Or. 14.599)

Cod.Or. 14.599 A miscellany A notebook with texts in various hands, mostly, in Arabic and Turkish, illustrated with tables and drawings, late 18th- to early 19th-century. The first folio is filled with many notes, lists, a recipe, numbers, partly in siyakat script, and calculations. A number of short Persian sentences refer to historical events: the departure for Hasan Pa§a to Cyprus, 23 §a‘ban 1212 (10 February 1798); the departure of ‘our mother’ by ship, 15 Zï 1-ka‘de 1214 (10 April 1800); ‘she left the village of Amavud’, 18 Zf 1-ka‘de (13 April 1800); and ‘the French ambassador [Ruffin] was imprisoned in Yedikule and they found important papers in the [French] Palace’, RebC'ii l-ewel 1214 (September 1799), cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji IV, p. 76. (la). One of the administrative notes on f. lb is dated 17 Cemazf l-ewel [1]218 (4 September 1803). A considerable proportion of the texts are of a magical nature, often containing prayers. In this category we find an Arabic ‘hisb’ ascribed to the Imam an- Nawawf (2b-3a); talismanic text fragments in Arabic with magic squares, preceded by Turkish headings and instructions (4a), to ward off evil spells, avoid headaches and other ailments (4a-5a); an Arabic recipe for curing urinary retention, followed by a Turkish talismanic text (11a); magical prescriptions for exerting power and warding off thieves (12a); Arabic and Turkish talismanic prescriptions, with drawings, for arousing love, realizing one’s desires, and other purposes (12b-16a, 17a; see plate); and a prescription for the magical use of Koranic texts (21a). To the same category belongs a brief anonymous treatise on the protective properties of the names of God and the magic circle called junnat al-asma’ invented by the Imam al-GhazaIT, with two drawings (17b-19b).(Another copy of the text is found in Cod.Or. 11.785(7).) Begins (17b, after a besmele): “>*" «1/1 «5 Lls j ... a>LaJI s i_ij <tU j I a hi a 4 lj « in) I <u_>. aS aJu jJu *a jSIa jJ a J J ^ hi o AjLab Also a list of magic words (20a); and an Arabic treatise on the Stone of Wisdom (30a-b). Some texts are of the astrological genre: a brief treatise on the division of the