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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.910, cont., Or. 17.913)

Nizam-oglu (pp. 172-96); an Albanian nefes by Muharrem Baba (pp. 196-8); and an Albanian gazel by Mahzünï Baba (pp. 199-200). (6) pp. 227-31 An inventory of magical signs, with explanations of their meaning in Albanian. It is headed Falli Hazreti shahi vilayeti imami aliut. (Another copy of the same text is found in Cod.Or. 17.913, below.) (7) pp. 247-64 A collection of various texts in Albanian. ’I'**

Bound on boards, chequered, white paper; 270 pages, with original numbers 1- 195,167x122 mm; neat Latin script in blue, red and black ink; undated. Acquired from F. de Jong, November 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.913 Bektashlye texts in transcribed Turkish This volume is a large exercise-book (ledger) with lined paper and texts in bold Latin script by, clearly, one copyist/compiler. Like Cod.Or. 17.910, above, it had belonged to the library of the tekke of Durbali Sultan at Farsala. The texts, exclusively written on one side of each folio, are preceded by the date Vjeshtë e par 1 (1 September) 1925 (p. 1) and the name ‘Durballi Sulltan’. Among them we find an Albanian version of a Vücadnüme (Vuxhut name), a treatise on onomancy with illustrations (see plate) and tables, ff. 1-100 (see for a similar text, Cod.Or. 14.637(8), above), followed by Albanian texts of varying length on aspects of die history and dogma of the BektashTye order. Also various lists and succinct biographies of (historic) religious personalities and Bektashf saints, among them inventories of 23 dedes residing in various places, 16th-19th centuries (ff. 101-104); and of fifteen postmans of the branch order of Durbali Sultan (ff. 228a-230a) up to 1338 (1919-20), as well as a table demonstrating the numerical value of the letters of the (Arabic) alphabet (f. 270a, see plate). An