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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.668, cont., 23.669)

found throughout the text in verses, written in red, which function as chapter headings. The work ends (pp. 78-9) with a medhïye-i IJayyat which shows an irregular rhyme pattern that begins: abcd/eeed/ffgd... Only one other manuscript seems to be documented. It is kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (and copied in 1264/1848). The work is followed (p. 80), by a note in praise of the author and his work, by the copyist, recommending that believers and particularly aspiring süfïs should, day and night, carry a copy of it with them. This note is followed by two beyts. Bound in light brown artificial leather; cream paper; 80 pages; 187x120 mm and 140x85 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesih, occasionally vowelled in black and red; headings amd multiple borders in red; crude flourishes in floral patterns in red and black in the text and accompanying headings; a simple headpiece in red with the title in black on p. 2; completed by es-Seyyid Ya'küb es-Sabn, a pupil of es-Seyyid Isma‘11 el-Vehbf, in Cema^r l-ewel 1310IKanün-i evvel 1309 (November-December 1893). Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.

Begins (p. 2, after a besmele): ajJ a AJ I ij I i 1 jj o j I ii i «■»« * ajJ a Aj I Aj * !_■ I» ■' * 4_o Ends (p. 79):

3 (J>? euloOj dS * > IA JLol Ó^-aILaJ) uj aJJ A-ajJI j ... -Voj^ob \i i» ^JLaj avI yjoo j Colophon {ibidem)'. v—> j 5 i_t i_. ..i II (Jjl ^ jl a~v \ r\ • 4'. ui jjj i4~>öII j jjKxJL lJSjöjlaJI j_< a >11 (Jjl 11**^ 4 i ill jJ-LU. I a nil >4 mil ^ A4-0M4 ^_)_o ^ ji null Copyist’s verses (p. 80): aU t j 4 it I 4 ,\L 1 j j “< jSI * <iil \ a>,11 1L-5 aLaö UJ-f'i' 3 «I.' * 3-®^

Catalogue entry: Blochet S. 1226.

Cod.Or. 23.669 Ka'idefi ‘ilmi l-kira’at 5*1 >aJI ^1c. ^ An undated, anonymous treatise on Koran recitation {tecvid). The title occurs in