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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.583, cont.)

Or. 12.583b A series of mostly positive, occasionally negative, black-and-white photographs of Istanbul MS Aya Sofya 2049, ff. 1-246, a miscellany of texts in Arabic and Persian on futuwwa and guilds. The MS is described by Taeschner in ‘Futuwwa- Studien, die Futuwwabünde in der Tiirkei und ihre Literatur , in Islamica 5 (1932),pp. 285-333, 313-9. Or. 12.583c A series of positive black-and-white photographs of Istanbul MS Aya Sofya 3416, ff. 87b-123b; a series of negative black-and-white photographs, bound, of the Paris MS Bibliothèque Nationale cod.ar. 2325, ff. 109b-159a - both texts represent a part of the Arabic geography Masalik al-absar ft mamalik al-amsdr, edited by Taeschner as Al-'Umart’s Bericht über Anatolien in seinem Werke Masalik al-absar ft mamdlik al-amsdr (Leipzig 1929) -; and a series of negative black-and-white photographs of MS Tübingen Ma VI 137, ff. la-84b, with an Arabic futuwwa text. Or. 12.583d A series of positive black-and-white photographs of (1) copies of Gül§ehri’s Mantik at-tayr, MS Istanbul, ‘Antikenmuseum’ (Arkeoloji Müsesi), Halis Efendi, without number, ff. 84b-95b; and, ibidem, No. 236, pp. 181-205 (see also under g, below); (2) a similar series of negative photographs of an unidentified Turkish text, probably a passage from Evliya Qelebi’s Seyahat-name, ff. 259a-275a, as is suggested on the envelope in which the photographs are kept (see also under h, below); (3) three black-and-white photographs with (unconnected) Turkish texts, unidentified; (4) a series of positive black-and-white phtographs of an unidentified Turkish chronicle of the Ottoman dynasty up to the period of Orban, ff. 1-23, followed by five pages showing endpapers with an index, lists of dated events up to the year 940 (1533-4), and various notes, made in Leipzig, May 1949 (cf. f. 7, verso)\ a similar photograph of two pages, 211-2, of an unidentified Turkish text. Or. 12.583e A series of negative black-and-white photographs of geographical texts: MS