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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.408, cont., 14.409)

few marginal additions by the copyist. Two ebced tables, indicating the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet are found on ff. 57b and 59a. Bound in gold-embossed dark brown leather; glazed cream paper; 59+(l) folios; 203x135 mm and 145x88 mm, varying; catchwords; small calligraphic nesih\ headings and rubrics in bolder script; illustrations and tables (cf. above); without a date or name of a copyist; owners’ inscriptions on f. la of es-Seyyid ‘Ömer b. Süleyman Müftïzade, es-Seyyid Mehmed ‘Arif (?) b. ishak Haldcl, mufti in the town of ... (?), and Ebübekir Siddlk ed-Dagistanï from the village of ...(?); a fourth inscription with seal has faded into illegibility. Acquired from Dr Qasim al-Samarra’T, January 1977. Begins (lb, after a besmele): J . : II j_.*< r JJU Ul ... »l_i < -»LüJ tjj U-J aS a JjI A» ... Jj jJii aJjj pH jLi j j*iS ••• Ends (56b): a jjl . - ■ I j t.^> c., <131 lj jAj I >■ dü ijj jJ aJLJ aLI ^ j J-® U ... [followed by a drawing, see plate] jj>j a jit.» 3 Catalogue entries: Flemming 301, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 890 (I, p. 229). Literature: Edith G. Ambros in El 1 .

Cod.Or. 14.409 Miftah el-cennet *i>JI £ A mid 19th-century copy of a treatise on Islamic dogma and religious duties by Usülï Efendi, who later adopted the name of Mizrakli Efendi. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb and in f. 2a: 14. The name of the author is mentioned in f. 2a:5-6. Only one other MS seems to be documented. The work is followed by an appendix, parhaps part of the main work, on the same subject, ff. 65a-70a. Bound in gold-embossed brown leather; glossy cream paper; (l)+70+(l) folios;