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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.670, cont., 23.671)

There are also a few short poems by Persian poets: Ibn Yamfn (a nutuk, p. 115); Mahmüd Shabistarf (a nutuk, p. 116); Thana’I (a beyt, p. 126), Jalal ad-Dïn RümT (various fragments, pp. 126-7, 127); Mawlana Jamï (a beyt, p. 127); and Hafiz ShlrazT (a quatrain, p. 132) Anonymous works include: are a kaside headed Mesa'ib-i Kerbela (pp. 1-6); a series of poems (rhymed aaab, cccd etc.) on the same subject and ending in a section headed §ehadet (p. 49), perhaps part of the same work (pp. 7-45) - the pen-name of Alihl is found repeatedly in a section headed ‘miinacdt’ (pp. 17-21); the names of ‘All Ferrub and Namik Kemal are found in the margins of pp. 53- 4; various kit‘as (pp. 58, 78); a kaside, listing the qualities of a number of shaykhs and headed 'Destür' (pp. 100-6); and some beyts (p. 119). *** Bound in boards cowered in light brown artificial leather; 135 + 1 pages, with original numbers; cream paper; 161x110 mm and 130x80 mm, varying; 16 lines; without catchwords; nesih, occasionally ta‘lik (the Persian poems; see plate); headings, rubrics and parts of poems in red; a seal of the copiler/copyist is printed in the colopon on p. 135 (see also above). Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Colophon (p. 135): A~. ■ n ^ I - . m I . .. \l ^4>| ^_c.LSsVI Ld jJI j j n "w II . a t I jj a a )l A j" 5 \ YYY a* ui w 4_jLa-

Cod.Or. 23.671 Kafiye-i manzüme «-«j tf>~. o A mid 18th-century, possibly autograph, copy of a versified grammar of Arabic by Hamdï ‘Osman. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. 2b; the author mentions himself in f. 2a: 1. The name ‘Hamdfzade’ is mentioned in the colophon (20b, cf. below). The text was based on the well-known Kafiya by Ibn al-Hajib, as is mentioned in a heading preceding the index on f. lb (The full title was Kafiya dhawtal-adabfi ‘ilm kalam al-‘Arab, cf. GAL I, pp. 303-5, S I, pp. 531-5. The author of the original work died in 646/1249.) Neither the Turkish version and its author, nor any other manuscript of the work, seem to be