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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.767, cont., 25.768)

do not suit the words on the following pages (and a folio has clearly been tom out between ff. 59 and 60). A few marginal additions in various crude scripts. (For another copy of the text and references, see Cod.Or. 12.343, above.) The endpapers contain annotations in Arabic (mostly prayers) and Turkish, among them: a vowelled prayer prescription for a man approaching his grave (2a, 7 lines); a vakf inscription, including a prayer prescription, of Mustafa b. Ahmed (3a, 6 lines); and another by the same, with the addition ‘dünyaya geldi sene 1142’ ("was bom in 1142/1729-30") (115b). Bound in rather tattered, dark brown leather with flap (which has come loose) and red-cum-gold tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed white paper, worn and stained in various places; 115 folios; 205x145 mm and 150x102 mm; 11 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesih; headings, rubrics, Arabic quotations, lines and borders in red; gold borders within black and red lines on ff. 3b-4a; golden dots {ibidem)-, completed on 2 Rebïu l-ewel 1165 (19 January 1752); without the name of a copyist. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, January 2001. Begins (3b, after a besmele): 3 3 ,>^1 C,4.I<wnt t-iliS ... Ijji Jju»i£.ill <d) [^] <41 3 Ji 3 üAp A* •4*4 j t-oLs^c. ^2** Ends (115a): u^J 11*» - *- Ij jJluuI >/.1u.jL5 t >>l A^_<lr aj 1 >i i,ol $ aJI j ijj>o ... aÜ jlijjj l3 iLr i fljL UohC. JMJjl Ci aLI a~>-j cr*jU >*!"■ j <^ib aISj LSJI j^*. <hl killjj- b LiJjb Colophon {ibidem): V a Jj) j \ \ 30 a \ i it

Cod.Or. 25.768 A Turkish document This manuscript contains a copy of an Arabic work on grammar entitled Shark al- bina by Mehmed b. Humeyd el-Kefevf (d. 1168/1754). It was completed by Koronlt Eyüb b. Ibrahim, resident of the Fiil yoku§i, see the colophon on f. 24a. Bound in the volume is a copy of a Turkish letter, a tegjare (7 lines, slanting