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as ample praise of the ruling Sultan Murad II, his son, Prince Mehmed, and the author’s patron, Vizier Mahmud Pa§a Kassabzade. The work was completed on the last day of Cematf l-ahir 853 (19 August 1449, cf. p. 512:18 - p. 513:1). Most versions end in p. 519:13, but this copy has an additional eleven distichs. Marginal corrections and additions. (For other copies of the same text, see Cods.Or. 6802, 10.853.) A vakf inscription in Arabic is found on p. 521'; the the manuscript was turned into an endowment by Hasan Ketfoiida b. ‘Abdullah. Rebound in boards with flap covered in green linen; glazed white paper, discoloured by moisture, particularly pp. 2-117 and from p. 406, and mended with paper strokes in various places; the first remaining leave (pp. 2-3) is partly tom and lost; the last leaves, pp. 516-521’, are also tom and damaged; (2)+520+(2) pages, originally numbered 2-520; the first page, part of the first original leaf, is missing; 281x190 mm and 225x140 mm, varying; 18 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesih\ headings, rubrics and multiple borders in red; broad gold, mostly oxidized, borders with a crude, multicoloured, figurative illustration on p. 2; gold borders within black lines and an illustration of the liva' el-hamd (the banner of the Prophet) in red, blue, gold, with black and white inscriptions, partly lost by trimming, on p. 204 (see plate); completed by Mahmud b. Sinan Efendi in the forenoon of a Saturday in §a‘bdn 1123 (September-October 1711). Purchased from Wasif ‘Abd ar-Rahman Shahid, 1974. Begins (p. 2): w i J$l aLi j a£ * a^lAJU 15 J$l Ends (p. 520): J>4 ^ Cj I 3i H*. 11,1 A» Lt j Colophon (ibidem): 9Ai *>• £ljJdl £*3 -J* ••• J*aJl Ja-djU 3 ■ wll ■ ■ •. «.^.H ^jjt a» yJLt 1»aSjUJI 4j j aJ <1/1 jJuc. ^ jcj I jtLut II < «_»lf>UI ajj ^ £U»*JI .<•■ ■- yj ju jls ... CiL.aj.JI 3 tj-CojJI j^asJ 3 aJI 3 I *rf_« It i>dL»-l 3 +»JIJ « A ; • ■*< ^31 3 p Ir» a all 11» 3 t -a-^ 3 3 ' Lit 3 ^It 3 jUS-t 3 jat 3 jZj UI f^-jl f+UI Ctaï Jl^jJI J+» *j+*3 tjj t «•>! *4'» t tul Copyist’s verses (ibidem): J. M 4-djlil aLj^». aS >* * UljS Jjl 03-d»jU j-4< LS jLSj^j alii & ^LJli * jlS.»L Jüj Jli f.»jU ^33