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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.653, cont., 23.654)

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Catalogue entry: Götz I, 449, where other MSS are mentioned. Editions: Istanbul without date (twice, cf. Özege 7399). Literature: HOP IV, pp. 270-3; Edith G. Ambros in Ef.

Cod.Or. 23.654 Tuhfetii I- ‘a$ikin j_. iUJ) 5Jl>ü An undated copy of a work on the excellent qualities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and Hebron as centres of pilgrimage, translated from an unspecified Arabic original by the shaykh Mehmed el-Yemenf. The translator is mentioned in f. 2a:4; the title on the inner front-board and in f. 4a:2. This work, which consists of fifteen chapters (bab), is preceded by an introduction, partly in Arabic (lb-4b). The last five folios contain chapters 9-15 in a different, more irregular, hand and may contain an abbreviated version, particularly towards the end. The last three chapters comprise only a few lines each. Various versions of this work and parts of it are documented (cf. GOW, p. 120n). The margins of ff. 21b, 22a, 32b, 33b, 33 b “b, 34a, 35b, 36a, 40b, 58b, 59a, 63b, 64a, 71b, 72a contain pious texts in Arabic in bold calligraphy; a lengthier Arabic quotation, in a smaller hand, occurs in the margin of f. 52a, dated 1318 (1900-1). Bound in gold-embossed, dark brown leather; glazed white paper without watermarks the title T&riti-i Darendi is written on the bottom edge; 80 folios, numbered 1-79 (33 occurs twice); 215x145 mm and 156x71 mm (up to f. 74b); 160x100 mm, varying (75a-79b); 15 lines; catchwords; irregular, vowelled nesih., more irregular and somewhat bolder on ff. 75a-79b; headings, rubrics, dots and borders in red (up to f. 74b); without a date or name of a copyist. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.