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(1) ff. 2b-26b Kifayetü l-vakt li-ma ‘rifeti d-da ’ire ve fazluh ve s-semt . -. a , it It j t j o ji I aH 4J3 jial l" * ^Jt qj Li-S An undated copy of a treatise on the use of the instrument which measures the circles of altitude parallel to the horizon (mukantarat) in order to establish the hours of prayer, by Mustafa b. ‘All, timekeeper (muvakkit) at the Selmuye Mosque in Istanbul, who used the pen-name of Selïmï (d. 960/1553). The title occurs in f. 2b: 11-2; the name of the author is mentioned in f. 2b:5-6. The work consists of a brief introduction, a preface (mukaddime), and twelve chapters (bab). A few marginal additions in various hands. (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 12.058(4) and 17.167, above.) Begins (2b, after a besmele): ^jJl 4AuLuiM jjJohi r*llii I) j n*»>tI ^ 1 c a r> ^ All aD o*», II ... * j t** i I r ^ . * III jLx jJL»l aju | ... Cjtj «mil Ends (26b): sj a jj jji j ■- ajLa o j ln>‘* 3 4 (jAjt j IruV a 4 Jjl aA*j •J jjJjl (jJlaJjI jJïLü a a~i-~JI (Jjl A^kjAjI Catalogue entries: Götz II, 359-61, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 4052-3 (III, p. 304); Kut 373; TYTK (Siileymaniye, Mustafa A§ir Efendi) 931; Yardim 3740. Literature: ‘OM III, pp. 300-1. (2) ff. 27a-54b Risale-i mukantarat cjI j-IoaJL* A mid 18th-century copy of an anonymous treatise on the use of the instrument which measures the circles of altitude parallel to the horizon (mukantarat). The title is suggested in f. 27a:2 (cf. quotation, below). Its author most probably was Mustafa b. ‘All (see 1; cf. ‘OM III, p. 301, No. 10). It consists of a brief introduction, a preface (mukaddime), and thirteen chapters (bab). Begins (27a, after a besmele):