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author in the heading on f. 4a, which was written over an erased original heading. This misinformation is repeated on f. 3b. According to verses not found in this copy, the work was completed on 14 Cemaiil-ewel 826 (25 April 1423) and was dedicated to Vizier iskender Qelebi (see Cod.Or. 1448(2).) The work is an almanac, which, among other things, presents prognostics drawn from metereological phenomena observed in the respective months of the solar year. It consists of a long introduction (4a-16b) and twelve chapters (bab). (For a description of the contents, see Fliigel 1425; for another copy of the work and references, see Cod.Or. 14.673, above.) A few marginal additions; f. 112b has, apart from a catchword, been left blank. The endpapers contain a series of annotations in various hands: an administrative note, ‘money given to Mehmed Monla’ (four entries, la); a note on the death of ‘my father’, dated 1 Receb 1278 (numbers back to front, 2 January 1862); the name of Monla Mehmed and various sentences (2a); a sentence (an aphorism?, 3a); a series of quotations from poems, among them a mesnevf with ends with a distich declaring the appointment of ‘Osman Pa§a to ser'asker (116a); administrative notes and verses (almost completely faded, 116b); verses, among them a miinacat, and a prayer; notes on the accession of Mustafa [IV] in 1222 (1807), Mahmüd [II] in 1223 (1808), the birth of ‘our Tahir’ on 4 Cemaii l-ahir 1207 (17 January 1793) (117a); more notes on the birth of Selman (or Süleyman) Murad in 1226 (1811), of Sultan Bayezid in 1227 (1812), of ‘my son’ Ahmed Samet in 1253 (1837), of ‘my son’ Hüseyn in 1256 (1840), of ‘my son’ Mustafa Vacid Efendi in 1260 (1844), and of ‘my son’ Mehmed Miinezzil Efendi in 1265 (1849) are all found on f. 177b or the inner back-board. Bound in worn boards with dark brown leather back and edges (almost disappeared); glazed cream paper; 117 folios; 205x145 mm and 170x115 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; irregular vowelled nesib; multiple borders and headings in red; completed by ‘Abdullah b. Yüsuf on 3 Receb 1098 (15 May 1687). An owner’s inscription of es-Seyyid Ahmed, known as FevrT, is found on f. 3b. Acquired from E.J. Brill, Leiden, March 1981. Begins (4a, after a besmele): Jjl |A-A ó-ai All L^diVI jJL»^ * Jljj aj j aj jl3 IaïjIa». ,^1 Ends (115b): '* v I** 1 *- VI jJl.1 LjLt * aJ> UI J 4 | Vjl Lj Colophon (ibidem): djZ** JJÏ>,.II j-üJI At jA JuJLslï Qjju a.aaJ.«J) *-■ y