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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.567, cont., 14.568)

Turkish titles - the words ‘gerdek’ and ‘yagmur’ occur in titles on ff. 38a and 38b. Also on ff. 39a-40a, there is a vird (a portion of scripture, to be read daily), attributed to Birgili Mehmed Efendi (d. 981/1573). An owner’s seal with the name Ibrahim occurs on f. 38b. A plethora of glosses and fragmentary texts in Arabic, occasionally in Persian, and often in Turkish, are added in black and red on the endpapers, between major texts and in the margins. Among the Turkish items of this type, besides glosses to the main texts, we find instructions for prayers and Koran recitations (lb, 26b, 27a, 29a [margins], 30b, 34b [margin], 36a, 37a, 37b, 39a, 40b); magic prescriptions for, it seems, stimulating the birth of sons and involving bees (19a [margin], 25a [margin]); talismanic diagrams with captions (21a, 33b, 35a [margins]); a diagram showing the number of the respective letters of the alphabet found in the Koran (22a [margin]); prescriptions against constipation and belly ache (24b [margin]); a diagram showing the number of manifestations ofJabra’fl to the respective prophets, including Muhammad (27b [margin]); various lists of things which make human beings more intelligent, induce forgetfulness, cause poverty, stimulate wrath, and a survey of divine attributes and the names of paradise (30a); prescriptions against toothache and fever (30b); a short text on the siinnet of the Prophet and the ‘pillars’ of the faith, followed by a kit‘a, and an ebced table with a few sentences on the history of Adam (31a); an Arabic aphorism with Turkish commentary (36b); a survey of taxes, avdrfz, levied by the kapudan of Doboj from a number of farms ((iftliks, spelt here ‘.'tji•««»-’) in the year 1141 (1728-9), and 8 entries with amounts in para (37b); a recipe containing honey for a ma'cun against bellyache (41a); and a prayer in Arabic and Turkish (41b-42a). Acquired from S.H. Alié, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.568 Glosses and annotations in Turkish This manuscript contains a collection of four Arabic treatises on grammar, followed by (5), ff. 20b-31a, a series of tables in three columns showing the declension of the verb Jjl* (headed by the title Mithal al-amthila al-mukhtalifa on f. 20b). The first three pages (20b-21b) contain many interlinear and marginal glosses in Arabic and Turkish, in smaller script. (There is also one Turkish interlinear gloss on f. lb.) Colophons with the years 1149 (1736-7) and 1150 (1737-8) are found on ff. lib and 17b respectively. Various Turkish annotations