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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.263, cont., 14.264)

6). He was a grandson of the ambassador and vizier Ragib Mehmed Pa§a (d. 1244/1828, cf. SÓ 2 IV, p. 1341). His signature, dated 11 RebC'ii l-ewel [12]41 (24 October 1825), with a seal are found on f. la. The volume contains one Turkish text:

(2) ff. 77b-114a

An undated copy of an anonymous commentary on the famous Arabic Qasidat al- Burda by Sharaf ad-Din Muhammad al-Busïri (d. 694/1294, cf. GAL I, p. 264 ff., S I, p. 467 ff.). No title is given. See for more details on the poem and its Turkish commentaries, Cod.Or. 11.111(1). Words and phrases of the Burda are written in red and are alternated by brief Turkish explanations in black. The margins of ff. 77b-79b contain lines of the original poem written with a blue ballpoint.

Begins (77b, after a besmele): iS* o'j—r j** ... 3 ^Ull jV jl sAjLI* it j u, Ends (114a): j jJu-Lb I |éJL» l ^>.j ,»±*JI $ Colophon {ibidem): L-ilj üh • yAjaJ

See for codicological data, Witkam, Catalogue, p. 360. Purchased from David Loman Ltd., London, on 3 June 1975.

Cod.Or. 14.264 A miscellany The undated volume contains a great number of Turkish treatises on religion, often very brief, the first of which is bi-lingual, Arabic-Turkish. (A detailed description is found in Witkam, Catalogue, p. 362-3.) Various notes in Turkish fikeste are found on the endpapers: a note on the marriage with a widow called Ümeye on 15 §a ban 1130(14 July 1718) and three distichs (la); an adminstrative fragment {'defter'), written upside-down, with entries in akge (217a).