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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 25.572, cont., 25.575)

diagram combines the numbers 1-6 and 1-12 (along the edges in red) and, in the squares of the quadrangle, the words ‘son’ (ibn) or ‘daughter’ (bint). The title with the author’s name is mentioned in a heading preceding the text on f. 192b. The text is followed by schematic calculations and names of, mostly, girls (women) in a different, more careless hand. Begins (192b): [5] tÜjJ C* u *.4 jJ a *■ ^ fjie Ai-ÉK <ulj jl I j3 j - I V jl ajJjua Lmi jl w J " ’■ « <L*Su I j jl Li la7 JÜl L) (jj a jlf I a Ends (193b): j ^ .XÜ}I a5Lc. I j a .lÜS I aLarJU a ^l>m ^Ju jJ® ifi hi V» i» 4 1.) JI J ■ * I ... |A i_j I j --aM » I 4-LJI Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, November 1999.

Cod.Or. 25.575 A miscellany A collection of legal rulings in Arabic and Turkish. The title Mecma'atii [sic] l- fetava is found on f. la. The items are not arranged in a recognizable structure and were copied as separate items by more than one scribe/compiler in a hap hazard fashion, often slantwise in various directions. The items have been drawn from a great many sources, mostly well-known works of jurisprudence, and we find titles and author’s names like ‘Hidaya’, “lmadtya’, ‘Majma‘ al-fatawd’, ‘Durar’, ‘Bazzazïya’, ‘Sharkal-Kanz’, ‘Badayi", ‘Khulasa’ (see Cod.Or. 25.572, above), ‘AnkaravP, and §eyhülislam Yahya Efendi. An unbound quire; glazed white paper; 18 folios; 200x130 mm; catchwords in red; nesili of various formats; headings, rubrics, parts of the text, and lines in red; without a date or name of a copyist/compiler. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, November 1999.