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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.133)

Cod.Or. 17.133 A miscellany Thise tattered and crudely bound volume contains three undated fragments of treatises on religion and hadis, copied, apparently, by one and the same scribe. No titles or names of authors are indicated. The ‘title page’ (la) contains a great number of jottings, words, fragments of sentences, calculations and two seal impressions. An Arabic alphabet, written upside down, and a few words are found on f. 53a. (1) ff. lb-52b A series of chapters (fast), incomplete at the end, from a work on the principles of Islam, punctuated with quotations from the Koran and stories taken from hadis. The chapters discuss the following subjects: the confession of faith (fezd ’ilii t- tevhfd, $ehadet, lb); prayers (9a); praying in public (feta’ilii l-cema‘at, 40a); the call to prayer (ezfln, 42b); the rules (edebler) concerning the call to prayer (44a); its dangers (Ihatardt, 46b); its acceptance (icdbet, 47b); the obligation of praying five times a day (50a); and the virtues of praying (feta'ilii s-salat, 52a). A note on an event taking place in ihlivne (Livno) and involving the captain Firdevsf Ibrahim, dated Tuesday 21 §ewdl 1251 (9 February 1836), is found in the margin of f. 17b (see quotation below). Begins (lb, after a besmele) ^ j!- !_■ i'h Cl J t>-*J JSLóhS tjj j' -«K [cjihI ijöji aijjjjl uJL»j &>■ Marginal note (17b): JJ CJUj-i SU O V< ■» 4ÏMI Jl jfJ u^i I kiliJ >**"1 j j U aJl. $£ Jjj (jlj I jjl ijm Jlji o V. til I all jS J1 JfSJJ jSj l±Jiï j t_i>1» Cjij ei \\0\ tint (j m*J) Ciij jijt# yJl Ends (52b): j'f Ijj j JJjJ &*}■» j j.Vii iu >4JjJjih«ijj «>• >~i ■»I I tJ JJJ& J>-u j