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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.606, cont., 12.622)

Literature: Christine Woodhead, ‘Ottoman in$a and the Art of Letter-writing. Influences upon the Career of the Ni§anci and Prose Stylist Ok?uzade (d. 1630)’, in Osmanli Ara§tirmalan VII-VIII (1988), pp. 143-59. (2) ff. 126b-129b A collection of letters An undated collection of (model) letters by Hasbf Adanavf (^>. jl), incomplete at the end. The name of the author occurs in the heading preceding the first letter on f. 126b. These are: letters to a friend (126b-127a; 127a; 127a-b; 127b; 127b- 128a; 128a-b); a letter to Ahmed Qelebi (128b); letters a friends (128b-129a; 129a; 129a-b; 129b [incomplete]). Begins (126b): o"*# aJV .il m. ,»>. j| ••• *<*» ‘lit *0 Jj 4j Li &£ *0 Jjj I J_LU jLl * *■ •- • Ends (129b): ■*! «I I $ >»>£. aLI jlj jL». *A-. ,%J J [o^Luif jj] A ...I qI^jJ

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Bound in tattered boards with greenish-brown leather backing and edges; glazed cream paper, extensive worm damage; 129 folios; 255x145 mm and 175x95 mm, varying; 23 lines; catchwords; calligraphic ta'ltk; occasional red headings, red dots, gold on ff. la-14b, 126b-129b, occasionally red diacritical signs; without a date and the name of a copyist. Purchased from Adab Books, New Cottages, Winterbum, Skipton (Yorkshire), England, on 15 March 1972.

Cod.Or. 12.622 A letter An original copy of an undated (but probably 18th- or early 19th-century) letter from Ahmed Pa§a, mtr-i mirdn of Bosnia, to the deputy governor {ban) of Croatia, jl <U3 [the address on the back has (jlc. General [at]