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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.264, cont., 14.304)

See for codicological data, Witkam, Catalogue, p. 362. Purchased from David Loman Ltd., London, on 3 June 1975.

Cod.Or. 14.304 Mahbüb el-kulüb . .jisii , . An undated and incomplete copy of a didactic work in rhymed prose and verses in Chagatay-Turkish by ‘All §ïr Nevayï (NawaT, d. 906/1501). It was written in 906 (1500-1) and was modelled on Sa'di’s Gulistan and JamT’s Baharistan. Our copy misses some leaves up to the beginning of the seventh chapter {fast) of the first part (kism) and abruptly breaks off towards the end of the third part (kism). A few marginal additions. A pious phrase in vowelled Arabic and crude geometrical drawings are found on the inner front-board; pencil notes on the contents and the author occur on the first flyleaf, recto. Bound in boards, partly covered in dark brown (front cover) and red leather (the back); a blind tooled inset in Oriental style is found on the outer front-cover; (l)+80+(l) folios; 185x135 mm and 140x87 mm; 15 lines; without catchwords; calligraphic ta‘ltk\ headings, rubrics and dots in red; multiple blue borders; without a date or the name of a copyist. Purchased from David Loman Ltd., London, in August 1975. Begins (la, cf. the Istanbul edition, p. 19:4): u"jjj 111 * isS* cHji» Crf-cLUl iSjtj>*" u >» » j ui jj ^3_>. Ends (80b, cf. the Istanbul edition, p. 196:11): “ij I aJj^j cu Lc. j Catalogue entries: Götz II, pp. 550-1, where other MSS are mentioned; Fihris 4346-7 (IV, p. 62); Stileymaniye (Ali Nihat Tarlan) 114. Edition: Istanbul 1289; Bukhara 1325 (cf. Özege 11924); (in Latin script) Agah Sim Levend, Ali §ir Nevai IV Divanlar ile Hamseler dnjindaki eserler (Ankara 1968), pp. 229-76.