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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.167)

Cod.Or. 17.167 Kifayetii l-vakt li-ma‘rifeti d-da’ire vefazluh ve s-semt i" > n i n II j 4 IuV fl j aIaII j • 1i- ■. I •- K An undated copy of a treatise on the use of the instrument which measures the- circles parallel to the horizon in order to establish the hours of prayer, by Mustafa b. ‘AIT, timekeeper (muvakkit) at the Selmnye Mosque in Istanbul, who used the pen-name of SelTnu (d. 96Ó/1553). The title occurs in f. 2b:9; the nanv of the author is mentioned in f. 2b:3. The work consists of a brief introducion, a preface (mukaddime), and twelve chapters (bab). Extensive marginal additions with references to [Risale-i] mukantarat (a closely related work; this title is also mentioned in the last line, see quotation below), partly lost by trimming occur on ff. 4b-8a; a table indicating the numerical value of numbers is found in the margins of f. 6a. (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 12.058(4), and 20.400(1), below.) The work is followed (20b) by the opening line of a different text in Arabic on the same subject; various jottings and notes with the year 1251 (1835-6, 21a); lengthy quotations from the [Risale-i] mukantarat (22b-23b; for a copy, see Cod.Or. 20.400(2), below); and the final page of a treatise in Arabic which continues the discourse found in the last line of f. 20b. Various text fragments are found on the endpapers, among them a besmele formula with additional jottings, partly in large calligraphy (lb); the title Risületü 1-mukantarütflrub‘i d-daire li-l- Mevla... (2a, written upside down); pious phrases in Arabic, partly in large calligraphy (25a, written upside down).

Rebound on boards covered in red cloth; white paper with only partly visible watermarks, stained at the beginning and the end; (l)+25+(l) folios; 190x122 mm and 145x80 mm, varying; 13-4 lines; catchwords; nesifc; a quotation and lines in red; without a date or name of a copyist. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981. Begins (p. 100, after a besmele): [wilLdl =] klLLdl ^JLt ^jj M ^tl u-LxJI jj u <!-»'«>,« <1/1 jLx jisl [a*j j] ... t-»lj i... ^1 a Ï-. — Ends (20b): <lL3 lr>_. >■ 4J.jj.li3 $j dhlijl Uj>- ajLjjyjl g ÜJ jjl