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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.149, 17.150)

Cod.Or. 17.149 A Turkish text fragment This undated manuscript contains a collection of Koranic chapters and prayers in Arabic. Some of the prayers bear (partly) Turkish headings: f. 65a (Du 'ü-i ‘ahdnamé) and f. 66b (Du'a-i gerdek). Another Turkish heading occurs on f. 75a (Yedi Oydt). There is also a Turkish story on the Prophet who, when he saw his daughter Fatima weep upon his death, ordered ‘All to draw his effigy (‘yd ‘Alt beniim hülim[i] yaz') so that all believers could contemplate his state and be blessed; details follow on the propitious times for doing so (69b-70b). It begins: ul+o o j*j .j jL^>- lj SjI £*33 Jjl a£j * * a >j : a^iUj jJUïl ol*.j <üUj jb j-sLao jb ( »JLu, a *-I*- Jjl Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.150 Turkish glosses and text fragments This manuscript contains a copy of an Arabic manual of epistemology entitled Ta'lïm al-muta'allim li-ta‘allum tariq al-‘ilm, by Burhan ad-Dm az-Zamujl (c.600/1203, cf. GAL I, p. 462). The text is accompanied by interlinear and marginal Turkish glosses. It was completed on 28 Ramazan 1270 (24 June 1854), see the colophon on f. 52a. The endpapers comprise various Turkish text fragments, among them an opening phrase of a letter in which the year 1270 (1853-4) is mentioned (la); the name of Molla ‘Abdullah Efendi (ibidem); a kasrde on the defeat of the ‘King of Austria’ at Banjaluka, dated 1150 (1737, cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji IV, pp. 25-6) - the poem shows the redif rhyme of ‘Banaluka iistine’ (52b-54a); opening lines of a letter (55a); and an owner’s inscription of ‘All Aga (55b). Remnants of the old covers, kept in a pocket inside the (new) back-board, contain elaborate administrative notes, partly illegible. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.