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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.221-8, cont., 14.244)

a copy of the newspaper Tesvir-i efkar, No. 2270 (4 November 1917); a copy of the newspaper Tanfn, No. 3195 (4 November 1917); a clipping from the Hilal (French), 4 November 1917; a copy of the newspaper Tanfn, No. 3194 (3 November 1917); a copy of Tanfn, No. 2948 (13 February 1917), with a clipping from Osrmnischer Lloyd; a copy of the newspaper Tesvir-i efkar, No. 2268 (2 November 1917); a series of papers, mostly excerpts from books, and a detailed report in Dutch (8 pages) with a Turkish text (one page, copied from Takvfm-i vekayi‘ No. 1967, 16 October 1914) by Kramers, devoted to the ‘Scheich-iil- Islamaat’, mostly concerning the reorganization of §eri'at courts, 1914 and 1917; various notes, among them corrected Turkish exercises and a series of annotations on Ottoman law, mostly Turkish quotations in Arabic script and a transcription; a report in Dutch by Kramers on ‘the practice of the Holy Law and marriage as it happens in Istanbul’ (9 numbered columns); an exercise book in blue covers, entitled ‘Seri’a’ with annotations, with Turkish quotations, on the same subject; and a letter (in Dutch) from Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, dated 7 December 1916 (8 numbered pages) - Kramers, it appears, had asked Snouck to intercede for him at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning an expected (but unrealized) promotion - he also seems to have complained on the excess of clerical routine work at the Embassy, which gave him too little time to read the press; the letter also discusses Kramers’ report on marital law; Snouck finally asks Kramers to buy some Turkish books for him and the University Library.

Cod. Or. 14.244 A pedigree with a Turkish heading The undated manuscript contains two main Arabic texts as well as a collection of various annotations (see Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 350-2). It contains a schematic pedigree of the Prophet Muhammad and of the Umayyad dynasty up to Yazfd and their families (twenty names are given), which is preceded by a heading in Turkish (4b). Acquired in 1975 from Prof. R.B.C. Huygens, Leiden, who had bought the MS in Damascus.