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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.159, cont., 17.160, 17.161)

*** The remains of a dark red leather cover or pouch; unbound quires and separate leaves with the remnants of a paper cover decorated with floral patterns; white to cream paper of low quality, stained and tom at the edges; 36 folios; 200x145 mm, varying, and (1) 155x100 mm, varying; (2) 130x80 mm, varying; (1) 13 and (2) 11 lines; catchwords; neat, vowelled nesily, headings, rubrics, dots and lines in red; without a date or name of a copyist; an illegible owner’s seal occurs on f. 16b. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.160 Turkish text fragments This undated manuscript contains an Arabic work on grammar by Ibn al-Hajib, al-Wafiya, with a commentary entitled Kafiyat dhawial-adab ft ‘ilm al-‘Arab, inrnmplp.te at both the beginning and the end. The volume has been rebound; the remnants of the old leather cover, together with tattered pieces of paper of varying size which had been used for stuffing and clearly are the remains of other, discarded, manuscripts, are kept in a separate box. These papers contain Arabic and Turkish text fragments, among them: a few incomplete lines of a Turkish poem, an incomplete page of what seems to be a calendar or a work on divination (in irregular fikeste script), one and a half pages with brief quotations from Turkish letters or documents (possibly from a kali’s register), and an incomplete page with prayer prescriptions (irregular vowelled nesih). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.161 Commentaries on prayers in Turkish This undated, incomplete manuscript contains a collection of Koranic chapters and prayers in Arabic, the latter with occasional Turkish headings and explanations. A few Turkish commentaries of greater length are added: a §erh-i nür (34b-37a,