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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.649, cont.)

are found on the ‘title page’ (la). A Turkish note in blue ballpoint, ‘Istanbul, Friday 2 March [1]951 ’, is found on the same page. (1) ff. lb-5 lb Divan A collection of poems by the §eyhiilisldm, Yahya Efendi b. Zekeriya Efendi (d. 1053/1644). It contains about 190 gazels in divan sequence (lb-49a), folowed by various fragments, mostly quatrains (49a-52a). The broad margins contain a plethora of other poems: gazels (in no obvious order), fragments, and longer items mostly by the same author, often in bolder, partly slanting script (see plate). A part of these marginal additions has been lost by trimming and cutting (tearing). We also find poems (gazels and kit‘as) by Nefiï (21a, 32b), [‘Azmfzade] Haletï (21a, 22a-b, 23b-25a, 28a-32a, 44a, 48b-51a), Bala (25b, 32b), the copyist (30b), JamT (32a, in Persian), Sa‘ïd (32b), and Sa‘dï (46b, in Persian). The opening phrase of a letter addressed to es-Seyyid ‘All Efendi is found in the margin of f. lb. A chronogram on the appointment of a grand vizier and dated 1056 (1646-7) occurs on f. 22a. A kaside for the kapu agasi, Gazanfer Aga (d. 1011/1602-3), is found on f. 31a. A series of riddles on the names of boys occurs from f. 33a onwards. Additional poems, also by Yahya, are found on ff. 52a-b. (For other copies of the Divan and references, see Codices Or. 879, and 12.467, above.) The first gazel begins (lb): Lui\ JJLiL»- 4-u«jLi aS LiL». * Ijua aJjI ^ » *■ «• aS a aIa ja The last fragment ends (51b): a A'Jl^ “Jj ijJk I j m i." * >o ijj •" l« I * jLaj jJb j 1CajaS AalIoLula c JUS

(2) ff. 53a-77b Divan A part of a collection of poems by Haletï, probably identical with Mustafa ‘AzmTzade (d. 1040/1630-1). It comprises a series of gazels, 128 in number, in divan sequence, covering the rhyming letters -r to -n. As in (1), the margins contain a great number of verses, gazels and kit‘as, by the same author, but also: riddles on the names of boys (from 53a onwards), gazels by Behayï (56a), Sa‘ïd