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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.305, cont., 14.328)

omitted), rubrics, dots and borders in red; completed in 722 (= 1722?); without the name of a copyist; two owners’ seals are printed in the margin of f. 48a, one of which has the legend ‘All-yi Mevlevf (?). Purchased from David Loman Ltd., London, in August 1975.

Begins (with a heading, lb):

Ói-» jii 3 CajU 3 tlLU 3jj [?] 4-iU Jjl a*** 1 pJ^c. I jil ) »LL* ) »jt3 Lib jl*** 3

Ends (49b): jl ltd , ... 7 a * Colophon (49b):

ai.ljl Jbjl ^ * j -. •*

* jl *3 tï • ji (*5 _>J C--J ji u-)L>

j.\[S] |»L->- a -iL I ^ijl j3*

14.328 A heading, a reference, and a fetva in Turkish This manuscript contains a copy of an Arabic work on jurisprudence, entitled Wiqayat ar-riwdya ft masa’il al-Hidaya, a commentary on al-Marghinam’s al- Hiddya, by al-Mahbübl (7th/13th-century, cf. GAL I, p. 377). It was completed by Ahmed b. §a‘ban b. Seyyidï b. Sadik in Istanbul during the middle of Cerndit l-ewel 1034 (19-28 February 1625), see the colophon on f. 217a. An inscription with a seal of Osman b. §ukn is found on f. la. The table of contents is preceded by a Turkish heading on f. 2b. A reference, in Turkish, to folio 128 Cyiiz yigirmi sekiz kdgid[d]adur gaflet olummaya') is found in the lower margin of f. 216b. A fetva, signed by ‘All, on the restitution of a gift of three oxen and a cow to his wife by a husband after she has divorced him, occurs on f. 217a (5 lines, left margin). See for a detailed description, Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 446-7. Acquired from Bonte Oudheden, Leiden, in 1975.