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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.519, cont.)

Bound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with a dark brown back and edges; a label with the title and name of the author is pasted on the outer front-board; glazed whitepaper; (l)+82+(l) folios, with original numbers 1-78; 219x138 mm and 164x82 mm; 23 lines; catchwords; nesih with ta'lik elements; headings, rubies, lines, dots and borders in red; gold borders within black lines on ff. lb-2a; completed on Wednesday 17 Cemaii l-evvel 1166 (22 March 1753); without the name of a copyist. Owners’ inscriptions of ‘Osman el-Moravf, mektübr-i defter (with a seal, la); es-Seyyid Mehmed Sadik (with a seal, ibidem)-, the emir el-liva Mehmed Tahir, yaver of the Sultan and son of the Grand Vizier Uayruddm, known as et-Tünisï (with a seal and dated 16 Zf 1-ka‘de 1324/1 January 1907, ibidem - see on Uayruddfn Pa§a, Ottoman and Tunisian statesman, d. 1890, G.S. van Krieken in Ef; see also plate); shaykh Mehmed Salih Efendi, a resident of Mecca and vekil of ‘our son’, the ferra$ es-Seyyid Mehmed (80b'); and Mehmed Bakir ‘UlvanI (in ballpoint, first original flyleaf, recto). Purchased from Hellmut Schumann AG, antiquarian bookseller, Zurich, in September 1978 for SFR 540.-.

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Catalogue entries: Flemming 56 and Götz II, 191-2, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 4413-8 (IV, pp. 80-2); Karabulut 227; TYTK (Siileymaniye, Mustafa A§ir Efendi) 765.

Literature: ‘GW HI, pp. 120-1; GOW204-6; Nejat Göyün?, ‘Kara-Celebi-zade’ in Ef.