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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.662, cont., 23.663)

Bound in black boards, stamped with two gold insets in late Ottoman style on the outer front- and back-covers; white paper; (2) + l + 115+4+(2) pages; 220x140 mm and 150x85 mm, varying; 23 lines; catchwords; nesih', for further details, see above. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.

Cod.Or. 23.663 A History of Russia An undated copy of a history of Russia between c. 1695 and c. 1840 (cf. f. 60b). The work is styled like a ‘treatise’ (risale) in f. 72a:22, and was originally accompanied by a map. It is possibly a translation from the English, as is clear from the repeated reference to the translator (‘miitercim der ki... ’) in the margins from f. lb onwards. Neither the title nor the names of the author and translator are mentioned in the manuscript (nor does a work resembling the present one seem to be mentioned in GOW, cf. p. 310n). An indication of the contents, ‘Rusya’nufi desd’isine da’ir’, is found on the first flyleaf, recto. The work consists of seven chapters (bab) and a conclusion (el-hatime, f. 82a) on the threat that Russia poses to Europe, in particular to Great Britain. Extensive marginal commentaries in the hand of the copyist. The work once belonged to Diyarbekirli ‘All Emin Efendi (1857-1923), whose vakf stamp is found on ff. la and 77b. (He was a littérateur, scholar, book- collector and civil servant, who brought together an invaluable collection of some 5000 manuscripts, jealously guarded against alien intrusion and bequeathed to the Istanbul Millet Library. A vague state library stamp with crecent and star, which may refer to this library and is accomppanied by the number 294 in blue pencil, is printed on f. la.) Bound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with black leather backing; pale green glossy and transparant paper; (l)+77+3+(1) folios; 205x131 mm and 160x80 mm, varying; 31 lines; catchwords; nesih.-, chapter headings in red; without a date or name of a copyist (see also above). Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (lb): JjLS ojI aS aJjI Jil jf.I jj Jjl jU t—Jll. a ll-»-o fb IjLJjj Jj^l