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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 18.691, cont., 18.692)

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An undated copy of a rhymed Persian-Turkish vocabulary by Sünbülzade Mehmed, who used the pen-name of Vehbï (d. 1224/1809). The title and the name of the author are found on the first flyleaf, recto, in ff. 3b: 18, 39a: 14, and 39b:6. The work, clearly in imitation of the popular 16th-century Tühfe-i §ahidr, was written in 1197 (1782-3). The work is preceded by an introduction, in mesnevi rhyme (lb-4a), in which the author informs us that it was the fruit of his

(1) ff. lb-39b

Tuhfe-i Vehbf

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