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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.761, cont., 25.762)

Edition: (in transcription) J.R. Walsh, ‘The Esallbü T-mekatib (miin§e’at) of Mehmed Nergisï Efendi’, in Archivum Ottomanicum I (1969), pp. 213-302. Literature: GOW, pp. 173-4; Ömer Faruk Akün in IA\ Christine Woodhead in EP\ see also the introduction to Walsh’s edition. *** Bound in boards with flap, dark brown leather backing and edges; glazed, cream to pale yellow paper without watermarks; 58 folios; 255x135 mm and (1) 170x80 mm, varying, (2,3) 165x75 mm, varying; (1) 25, (2,3) 23 lines; catchwords; small ta'llk; headings, rubrics and dots in red; gold borders within black lines on ff. lb-2a; a crude gold headpiece on f. lb; an owner’s inscription with an illegible signature states that the MS was bought from [the bookseller] Nasrullah Efendi at Bayezfd [Istanbul, on this bookeseller see the Introduction to Chapter 2] on 30 September 1336 (1920) for 60 kurus in banknotes (inner front-board). Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, January 2001.

Cod.Or. 25.762 A miscellany A notebook kept by, primarily, the Sa‘dïye/Rifa‘ïye shaykh Ahmed Ra§id, head of the Findtkzade tekke (d. 1245/1829, cf. SCP IV, p. 1353; see also A. Dietrich, ‘Sa‘diyya’, in EP). His name occurs in a number of colophons and notes throughout the volume. The texts, mostly Arabic and Turkish prose, cover a wide range of genres, including detailed data on the Sa'dfye and RifaTye orders of dervishes. Notes on family events are found on p. 1 (concerning the appointment of Findikzade Mehmed Efendi, probably Ahmed Ra$id’s father who was a kQjf (cf. p. 98), to a posting at Yabanabad (Kizilcahamam, near Ankara) in the Divan of the Sultan on Thursday 10 Zf l-ka'de 1212, 26 April 1798); and p. 96 (notes to a chronogram (tom off) on Ahmed Ra§id’s death in 1246, corrected in tiny script to 1245 - two of his seals are also printed on the same page). A chronogram on the birth of Ahmed (possibly Aluned Ra§id) with the year 1172 (1758-9) is found on p. 3. Texts concerning mysticism and various süfl orders are the following: a note on tasavvuf and the inner meaning of some letters (p. 2, 7 lines); a collection of