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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.666, cont., 23.667, 23.668)

Bound in dark red, gold-embossed leather with flap; glazed white paper; (l) + l+33+(l) folios; 173x114 mm and 140x66 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; nesih; headings, rubrics, lines and multiple borders in red; multiple gold borders within red lines on ff. lb-2a; a simple headpiece in gold and red on f. lb; without a date or name of a copyist. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (lb): ««If 3 ,jöL>. aJj I L_> f-L * 4-4 Lj £ Li k4Iab w j II Ends (30a): Jil |4 -IJ-i ijj jo J L-j * JL«S 4-4 Lj ^yaJ «X/ X4> cjL->- (_»T J-4j j$J$I 4Jj jj*a£ * cjiLtLs [j*M . r-1'« j;M1'«

Catalogue entries: Films 4953-4 (IV, pp. 225-6); TYTK (Balikesir) 906.

Cod.Or. 23.667 A Turkish chronogram This manuscript contains an undated copy of a succinct Persian work on Arabic grammatical regents entitled Tarjama-i Farsiya-i ‘Awamil. The work is followed (on f. 21b, see plate) by a Turkish chronogram of four beyts, headed 'tdrih-i Terceme-i ‘AvamiV, by Hamdf Beg (‘Mir HamdC). According to the poem, he used the book in secondary school ('rü§dïye') at Be§ikta§, and wrote the poem upon finishing school. It is dated 1271 (1854-5). It begins: Okuyub ‘amil u ma'mül ile i'r&b u ‘amel, and ends: MïrHamdïdedi hatminda miicevher tdrthl buldi (ün Terceme müctemel ü miistekmel. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.

Cod.Or. 23.668 Kenzü l-fütüh ry.il A late 19th-century copy of a long poem in mesnevf rhyme - one kaside is inserted on pp. 20-2 - on mysticism by shaykh Uayyat Vehbf el-Erzincanï. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on p. 2. Both pen-names of the author are