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consisting of separate stanzas in mesnevf rhyme and, occasionally, of the format of a gazel/kaside. The work is preceded by an introduction in which Birgivï [Mehmed Efendi], author of the Tarfkat [at-Tartqa al-Muhammadiya, see GAL II, p. 441, No. 15] is mentioned (69a:10). Subsequent stanzas discuss, according to headings preceding them: küfr, bid'a, riya, and other sins. From f. 71a onwards, single or small groups of distichs are alternated with large blank spaces in which terms for wicked acts or thoughts are written in red. From f. 72b, the theme switches to meritorious acts, also indicated by red words in empty spaces between verses. From f. 76a, a new chapter commences; it is preceded by a besmele and discusses the 54 religious duties (fart) based on the authority of Basri. The work is preceded by gazel of religious content, followed by three lines in Arabic (68a); it is followed (76b-77a) by fragments in two different hands, among them prayer prescriptions and a quatrain, followed by the name of Ebülkasim Mehmed el-Mustafa. Begins: (68b, after a besmele): a Juls At I U3^ * L)Uj S-U.1J < ah'* J-i-i 4V Ends (76b): , j*J*l kiLaJjl k_JU» 4-IUjÓ- * JLoi. UsLojl aJLI JS JUS jj kllju I (4) ff. 78a-151b Hayat-i ebedi ^ v i A copy of a treatise on religious ethics by LutfT b. ‘AbdulmuTn ‘Abdulhayy, better known as the Grand Vizier LutfT Pa§a (d. probably 970/1562-3), author of the well-known Asafhdme. The name of the author and the title of the work are mentioned in, respectively, ff. 79b: 1-2 and 78a: 12. The title ‘ Vastyetname-i hayat- i ebedi is found in a heading preceding the work on f. 78a. Other copies of the work do not seem documented, nor is it mentioned in the extant literature (cf. GOW, p. 81; Colin Imber in Ef). It consists of an introduction (78a-80a), in which the author relates how friends asked him to write a succinct manual on the ways of the Prophet (sünnet) so that they could distinguish themelves from men who followed their fancies (ehl-i hevd), and seven chapters (fast). The work is followed (151b) by the first four lines of a separate work, the first chapter of which is entitled bdb-i yiirüt es-saldt'; it is preceded by a besmele and