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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.669, cont., 23.670)

a heading preceding the text on f. lb. The work is followed (41a-45a) by a separate chapter on the various ways of pronouncing the letters of the alphabet, headed fasl el-maharicü l-hurüf. A few marginal additions. (For another copy of this text, see Cod.Or. 17.159(2), above.) The inner boards and endpapers are filled with notes in crude writing and jottings, among them various magic formulae (inner front-board), the names Ja‘far Sadik and Mehmed, a tailed signature and a tugra (in red, ibidem); a preamble of a letter addressed to ‘All Efendi (la); another opening fragment of a letter (45b); and a prayer prescription ascribed to Ja'far Sadik (inner back-board). Bound in boards with edges and backing in brown artificial leather; glazed cream paper without watermarks; 45 folios; 162x112 mm and 115x74 mm; 9 lines; catchwords; vowelled, calligraphic nesife; headings, rubrics and borders in red; (oxidised) gold borders within black lines on ff. lb-2a; a crude gold headpiece on f. lb; without a date or name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription, partly erased, of Hafiz Melnned occurs on f. 45a. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996 (who in turn, as it appears from a pencil note on a separate card kept in the volume, had bought the MS from a souvenir stall at Eyiib, Istanbul, in 1971). Begins (lb, after a besmele): 3 j II • 4j * I jjs LJI J-UJJ 3 3 -H~| lb (jl jill O * 1 jjj I'jJI b j*l (_£ jjl AOiill Ajjyc. 3 o jl aJjlï jljij 4SJ3I 4 3 ... 111II 3 a 31 irt)) Ends (40b): a Aji-LS c a j j- ■> UCuj c a j 3 ' UjaAA *Oj3*m ... j i i» j . II i_jb (_lLlSJI Q4J j A-J 31 4^01 L«

Cod.Or. 23.670 A poetic miscellany This collection contains a series of poems and songs of mystical content and, in particular, on the martyrdom of the Imam Husayn at Karbala’. The copyist/compiler was the RifaTye shaykh, Ahmed Edïb, an official at the Post Office in Istanbul who completed the volume in 1333 (1914-5). Data on the identity and year of death of the contributors have been occasionally added to the