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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.758, cont.)

Selïmï (87b); a quatrain, and gazels by Kelbl and Ra§id (88a); gazels by Hacc Mehmed and HilmI (88b); gazels by BakI and Ibrahim Pa§a, and a quatrain (89a); a riddle ("what kind of man is he...?") with an answer ("Devecizade") and a gazel by ‘Arzl Efendi (89b); a gazel by KadrI (89b-90a); gazels by Behayl (90a-91b); various fragments attributed to Kemal Pa§azade (91b-92a); a gazel by Necatl (92a); a gazel by §em‘I, a quatrain, two beyts (92b); a mesnevf attributed to Behayl (92b-97b); a chronogram by NabI (98a); a kaside by NefT in praise of Sultan Murad [IV] (98b-100a); a tahmis by the same on a gazel by Nev‘I (100b); a gazel (partly illegible) and a beyt (101a); a talynis by Nef‘I on a gazel by Rühï (101b); a kaside, entitled nasihat, by §emsl Efendi (102a); a chronogram by NabI on a campaign against Muscovy (102b); and (a part of a) kaside by Vehbl (102b- 103a). (15) ff. 103b-106a Various prose fragments and poems in various hands: a text on birds is Arabic (10 lines, with the colophon ‘katabahu al-faqir') (103b); a gazel by Muhterem (104a); and afethname on the Morea campaign of 1127 (1715) by Habe§Izade [‘Abdur- rahlm Beg, d. 1140/1727, cf. SÓ 2 1, p. 133] (104b-106a). (16) ff. 106b-112a A collection of poems V This collection consists of a lengthy mathnawi preceded by an introduction, both in Arabic (106a-109b+llla); a Persian beyt, a quatrain and a gazel by Yahya (110a); various verses on Yüsuf and a miifred attributed to Bala (11 la); a quatrain (111b); a gazel by BakI (112a). There is also a note in Turkish, written in commemoration of Darendeli Katirci Halil Agazade Dervl§ Mehmed, dated 11 Receb [1]216 (17 November 1801), and another one in Arabic (111b). (17) ff. 113a-114a Various text fragments in Arabic, among them a prayer (113a-b). Jottings in Turkish occur on f. 112b (a line with the name of Seyyid Ahmed b. Mahmüd) and on f. 114a (a line which mentions the date 15 Sewal 1234 (18 August 1819). ***