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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.761)

Cod.Or. 25.761 A miscellany An undated collection of works by the early 17th-century authors Nab! and Nergïsï, possibly copied by one scribe. A vowelled Arabic poem is found on f. 58a. (1) ff. lb-21b Tarih-i Kamanige <l*üL*3 jujti A copy of a history of the conquest of Kamanife (Kamieniec or Kamenetz Podolski, Ukraine) during the Polish campaign of 1083/1672 (cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji III, pp. 440-1) by Yüsuf Nabï (d. 1124/1712). A lengthy title, or rather a brief description of the contents, is found on f. la (quoted below); the work is also known as Fethname-i Kamanige. Yüsuf Nabi mentions himself as katib (‘hiimet-i kitabetleri olmagla’) in f. 2b: 11. The history was commissioned by his patron Musahib Mustafa Pa§a (d. 1097/1686, cf. SO 2 IV, p. 1203) who had appointed him as secretary to the Divan. (For another copy of the text and references, see Cod.Or. 12.355, above.) Marginal indications of content in red. Title (la): *4 i M jCJi jlS- ijUtxLu <Ujj it i « 3 aj^j^ I jjL. (jl J * t I) 3 4 4j I f b jLiü . C 5U * I I « Begins (lb): j_i5'iI^ -I» jyat j * 3_«J31 li a v>>< ui Ia» aL 1 _ t j Ends (21b): 4 la~ ui jL» J~>«'| “*• b jAjt * a Alj utj ^ L) o AÜb ‘■ 'Jbij i_>3J3I 03-xJil j>> (2) ff. 22a-26b Two letters in florid rhymed prose, the first of which is signed ‘Nabï el-Qelebi’ (23b, see 1, above). They are preceded (22a) by an incomplete sentence from another letter not further extant (the previous page, f. 21b, lacks a catchword). The first letter is, according to the heading on f. 22a, addressed to an engraver (hakkak) of Erzurum. In it the author complains about the incompetent inscription