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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 20.403, cont., 20.404)

Cod.Or. 20.403 A collection of medical recipes and prescriptions The recipes found in the undated volume and which were obviously copied by one scribe, concern medical pastes (ma'cün), pills (habb), ointments (yag), and potions (garab). These and the other medical texts are preceded by headings, in red, indicating the names of the medicines and the deseases under discussion. Drawings in black and red of a retort, the extraction of oil with the help of a piece of rolled paper, and types of presses occur on ff. 47b-48b (see plate). A few marginal additions. Bound in brown boards with flap and leather backing and edges; white to light brown paper of low quality without watermarks; (1)+106+(1) folios; 193x127 mm, varying, and 125x65 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; irregular nesih\ headings, rubrics and numbers in red; without a date or name of a copyist. Acquired from Fatatri in May 1987.

Cod.Or. 20.404 Two translations of the Mukhtasar al-Qudürf The Mukhtasar al-Qurdün was a widely used Arabic work on HanafT jurisprudence by Abü 1-Husayn Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Qudüiï (d. 428/1037, cf. GAL I, pp. 174-5, S I, pp. 295-6). Both texts were written by the same copyist, possibly the author of (1). They both start in the middle of the volume and are separately numbered. This manuscript contains some loose papers: a bound quire, 6 folios, with prayer texts and quotations from the Koran in Arabic and Turkish (an index is found on ff. 2b-4a, a colophon with the name Ahmed and dated 24 Zf l-ka'de [12]96 (9 November 1879) on 5a, and a seal with the name: es-Seyyid Mehmed... and the year 1291 (1874-5) occurs on f. la); a folded sheet and one additional leaf with similar texts, but also containing fragments of hadith and tafsir texts; and a smaller folded sheet with similar Arabic texts and dated 9 Zf l-hicce 1296 (24 November 1879).