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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.730, cont., 25.731)

An Arabic quotation concerning ash-Shiblï, from a work entitled Zahrat ar- riyad - this may have inspired the title written in bold nesih on the same page - a calculation and a series of words are found on f. la. Another series of words, possible an Arabic sentence, occur on f. 20b. Bound in boards with dark brown leather backing; glazed cream paper; (l)+20+(l) folios; 210x148 mm and 140x70 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; ta7ft; headings and rubrics in red; completed in 1200 (1786, cf. above); a vakf stamp, dated [12]69 (1852-3), of Sirri Hasanbegzade occurs on ff. lb and 20a. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, 23 October 2000. Begins (lb, after a besmele): *aJLmij 3 11u I Ajlj 3 ... 4)3*4* j k _ r Lc iii I) 3 a 3I449JI 3 4JI3J ^Jlc. aJJ V‘ a 0 3 J «*»"> >» a oüjLj j ale. jJt aJu jJu ^ I j (j - . f I a c Lb a5 j * a .,, c-j jj 3.» lIJU alt LuJ ^ ... c_) I aJj ^ r I U- ...I J_. la Ends (20a): 3 *—Ó v. t_> -1J3I aA*a?l j jjl a_Lj j_> (jVjl r jj ... 1" in all j (^4 3^11 Ajjl j aJjt 3 J3J 111 • Q v* tj AJ3I o^^uiT Colophon (ibidem): a)I L»Y 34J I ale aJuj^UI aJLu/ jJI ojy* j^*ó i-jJI 3 juöj La a, ml alauLaJI jLal 1 * ■ • 3

Cod.Or. 25.731 Lutflye a , ui An undated copy of a didactic poem, in mesnevf rhyme, by Sünbülzade Vehbï (d. 1224/1809), dedicated to the author’s son Lutfullah (mentioned in 2a:9). The title of the poem and the name of the author are mentioned in f. 2b: 14. The work was, according to the concluding chronogram, written in 1205 (1790-1). It consists of an introduction in which Vehbï directly addresses his son (lb-2b, translated in GOD, p. 563), followed by a great number of small chapters discussing, among other things, the sciences and the best possible career, marriage and pernicious habits; it ends with an epilogue (hatime, 40a-b, partly translated in GOD IV, p. 567). A few marginal corrections and glosses in Arabic. (For another copy of the same work, see Cod.Or. 1452(1).)