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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.756, cont., 25.757)

bold, vowelled, calligraphic nesih; rubrics in red; lines in red and gold; borders in gold; a fine headpiece in blue and gold with a title in white (see plate); dated [1]200 (1785-6); without the name of a copyist. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, January 2001.

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Ends (100b): JüjI t—kj jJvj j-y-u Lal j^ï> Cjj jjJjAjI j « I- jl'JLa jjLot j35>*I • • • l»iL*JI liliaJI nil I j ^iLOl a La i~i at jJj a The postscript begins (ibidem): jl j ~ I J ,J^ÓJ jó j-lij $-lj *aJLu/ j a5 jJü I (jb aJI j-> 1-4-0/ ...

Ends (102b):

*_■ I «• *I«- ^ j jJS Jj 3 AiJjl <JI jl ** J; ■ “ a»v9 jJjI ^ j n c t" ij a j Aial jLa Colophon (ibidem): ¥• • Aöoo

Cod.Or. 25.757 A miscellany This volume contains a number of works, mostly on legal subjects, copied by, mostly and probably with the exception of (2), one unnamed copyist in the early 17th century. More fragmentary texts, in different hands, are found throughout the manuscript. The ‘title page’ is filled with a great many jottings and annotations: titles (Asaf-name-i Lutfl Pa§a and Kdnün-ndme-i Mehmed Han), a note on books given to ‘our brother el-Hacc Mehmed Efendi’, dated 1060 (1650), other administrative notes, a partly erased seal and the name Yahya Efendi, an Arabic and Turkish phrase, partly crossed out, and calculations. More calculations are found on ff. 8a-b. Prayer formulas, in vowelled Arabic, occur on f. 68b. Poetical fragments (kit‘as and miifreds) are found on f. 69a, some of them by La‘all Efendi - in left margin of the same page there is a note by an owner (possibly the copyist of 2) on the birth of Prince Mehmed, son of Ibrahim, dated