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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 26.045, cont., 26.046)

10 Muharrem 995 (21 December 1586), cf. the colophon on f. 20a. An owner’s inscription of Seyyid ‘Alïb. es-Seyyid ‘Abdulkerfm, known as Siileyman Begzade (?), is found in the margin of f. 5a. Various seals are printed on ff. 9a and 15a; illegible red stamps occur on ff. la and 19b. A great number of texts in Arabic, Persian - among them more poems, particularly gazels, by Rümï - and Turkish are added to the volume, mostly by the copyist. Among the Turkish texts we find, foremost, a digression on the divine origin of the shari'a, mysticism, and other matters (2b-4b), based on, at least partly, a work entitled Mefatih el-kulub mentioned in the first line; a statement by Rümï found in the fifth volume (daftar) of the Mathnawi is referred to in the same line. It begins (2b, after a besmele): >l~»« ,jjI O.. 1 * aix«a 3 aJI 3 \4.x< ^ 1 f nhI Ii*> 3 i__>3JJÜI Lua a r 3 .11 L a LSI ... 3t a JjL^j 3 ^g ^g L* jiS J jl ... ... aS jJ a Vi II* a ^a-i ji Cju j*jj 3J31 a 151 3 * * 111 I « alj aS ■* ■ ^ ■* Smaller Turkish fragments are: two recipes for curing colds (8b); a gazel by BakI Efendi (partly illegible by trimming) and a beyt (9a); a list of the best ‘hours and moments’, with the weekdays in bolder Persian, to read the Sürat An'am (20a); and three gazels by Rü§enï in praise of shaykh Ahmed b. Sultan Gül§enï (24b-25; cf. also Cod.Or. 1279[2]). Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, The Hague, 19 October 2001.

Cod.Or. 26.046 Celadet-i Hiiseyntye ^cj A long poem in mesnevf rhyme on the revolt of the Imam ‘AIT and his adherents in the early days of Islam, and particularly the martyrdom of Husayn at the Battle of Karbala’. The work is characterized by the author as a ‘comprehensive maktel’ (2a: 13), written, according to a statement on the title page (la, see plate), in emulation (‘takfiye’) of similar poems, Zatunnitakayn [also the name of the mother of ‘Abd Allah b. Zubayr] by [Mu'allim] Nacï (1850-93, cf. Inal, pp. 1030-47), and ïslam[-i Hazret-i] ‘Ömer by [Üsküdarli] Safi (1862-1901, cf. inal, pp. 1557- 61). These works were printed in Istanbul in, respectively, 1307 (1890-1) and 1308 (1891-2, cf. Özege, 23636, 9384). The title is mentioned on the title page and, in pencil, on the first flyleaf, recto. The author’s signature is found on the same page, and may be read as Cevdet. The pen-name of Sakfi is found in the last lines (60b). The work was begun when the author was consul (§ehbender) in