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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.161, cont., 17.163)

recounts a hadis on the ‘Prayer of Light’ which follows on f. 37a); a §erh-i mühr- i Süleyman (40b, incomplete, a picture clearly is missing); a fragment of a commentary on a prayer (41a-b, incomplete); a commentary on the seal of tJizir, followed by a picture in black, red and yellow (42a-43a, see plate); a §erh-i mühr-i Resül (43b-44b; pictures of the seal of the Prophet are found on ff. 40a and 50a); Evsaf-i Nebi(48a-49b, a prescription for twelve ayets to be said during battle); a tradition explaining the magical effects of a prayer (50b-52; the Arabic text follows on f. 52a); an introduction to the ‘Prayer of Khadr’ (56a-58a); a hadis, introducing another prayer and explaining that it will protect a warrior against harm (59a-61b). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.163 A miscellany This manuscript contains two main texts, the first of which is a pious work in Turkish (cf. below). The second, (2) ff. 85b-129a, is a collection of forty traditions (hadith) in Arabic, copied by different scribes in the middle of the 18th century and clearly, originally part of different manuscripts. Text fragments in Arabic and Turkish are found in various places: prayer prescriptions in Turkish with a talismanic square (83a-b); an inscription of Imam Monla Hasan b. Imam Monla Hasan (129b); pious texts in Arabic (130a); and a fragment of a Turkish letter concerning a commercial transaction in which a certain Fatma bint Hasan Haccf of Palanka-i Cedfd and Salih Efendi of Jenice (Zenica), are involved (139b, 12 lines). (1) ff. lb-83a [Kitab-i] Kirk su 'dl J'J-' jji An mid 18th-century copy of a popular collection of didactic stories based on the Koran by Mevlana Furatl (or Firalo), who probably lived in the second half of the 16th century. The author (‘^1^3’) is mentioned in f. lb:3. A DervT§, ‘Alt, mentions himself as ‘its writer’ (musanmfi ve katibi) in the closing lines, thereby replacing the aforementioned Mevlana, mentioned in other copies in comparable phrases as the author (cf. the final lines of Cod.Or. 12.371(1), above). Obviously