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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.128, cont., 17.129)

during a year (7 lines) and another one on a payment of 50 kurus (with the names of Hüseyn Uöca and ‘our Salih’, probably an owner of the MS, see below), are found on f. 63a. A prescription for an amulet with a prayer text occurs on f. 64a (7 lines, headed by a magical drawing). Begins (lb, after a besmele): ... II J a jJLaJI If 4 {ya 3» j L IJL4 ^ 4J! *11 Ends (62b): j \ J ■■ ajLi aJjjI ajjJ Colophon (ibidem): \ \ At 4JLmi <li n->^ t>fc u < !-»«->< ujI >«- £ - jj «'*»)! Bound in worn boards with dark brown leather back; glazed cream paper, worn and mended at the end of the volume; 210x145 mm and 150x75 mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesih\ headings, rubrics, lines and dots in red; completed by ‘Ömer b. Mustafa from the village of Foca (Foca), in 1184 (1770- 1); an owner’s inscription of Salih b. Mustafa Aga from the village of Radnovik (i4L>*jIj) occurs on f. 62b. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.129 §erh-i Vastyet-i BirgivC An undated copy of a commentary on the popular Vaslyet (Vastyetname) by Mehmed el-BirgivI (d. 981/1573). The commentary was written by Shaykh ‘AIT es-Sadrï el-KonevT (d. after 1120/1708). The author of the original work is found in f. 3b:8 and f. 4a:7; the title of his work in f. 4a:7. The title §erh-i Birgili is found in a heading preceding the text on f. 3b; the title Birgili serhi is found on f. 2b. The nams of the commentator occurs in f. 4a: 14. The work is preceded by an introduction (3b-4a) in which the author states that some of his ‘brethren in faith’ had asked him to explain the difficult passages, in Birgili Efendi’s treatise on ethics, to them. The work is concluded by an (author’s) colophon (100a), to which is added that the work was written in ‘approximately, the year 970 [1562- 3]’, which is found in some copies of the Vasiyet. According to a colophon found in the Manchester John Rylands University Library copy, MS Gaster 1506, the commentary was written between 1114 (1702-3) and 10 Ramazan 1120 (23