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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 25.171, 25.173)

Cod.Or. 25.171 Dfvan-i hezeliyat oLJ>a An undated copy of a collection of humorous and satirical, to a great extent also bawdy, poems by Seyyid ‘Osman Sürüri, using the pen-name of Heva’I (d. 1229/ 1814). The title and the name of the author are mentioned in a heading preceding the text on p. 2. The work contains a miiseddes (pp. 2-3); a muhammes on ‘Allame Efendi (pp. 3-4); 60 gazels, but not in dtvdn sequence (pp. 4-27); 96 chronograms of greatly varying length (pp. 27-44), written on various occasions between the years 1187/1773-4 and 1218/1803-4, a number of them lampoons explicitly directed against his friend Sünbülzade Vehbï; 246 kit‘as, many of them again addressed to Vehbï (pp. 44-67); and 37 beyts (pp. 67-9). These are followed by an appendix with eight gazels. (For another copy and further references, see Cod.Or. 23.653, above.) Bound in boards (whose back has disappeared); cream paper without watermarks; 71 + 1 pages, with original numbers; 229x159 mm and 186x102 mm; 23 lines; without catchwords; nesih; multiple black borders; a headpiece with floral motifs and title in black, pink and grey on p. 2 (see plate); without a date or name of a copyist. Purchased from Dr Nico van den Boogert, June 1998. Begins (p. 1): (j5 iii IJ j-> 411» $ -ij5Li * aL I jj^li tjxl CUd ljL jl Ends (p. 71): j-iiLliJ o j+Jjj ,^90 4 m>4d * J I in 151 <4Jb 4J4S jT I a

Cod.Or. 25.173 Two Turkish texts A collection of ten loose, and rather worn, leaves of different format which contain pages tom from manuscripts, notes and draft letters in Arabic, partly in Maghribf script, and Turkish. Among them there are two Turkish texts: a draft gloss on a line from the Koran (sura 5:15) concerning God’s gift to mankind of a Light and a Book (transparant white paper, approximately 205x125 mm, nesih,