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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.720, 25.721)

Cod.Or. 25.720 Turkish text fragments A small oblong notebook with quotations from the Koran and prayers in, mostly, Arabic and, occasionally, Persian. There are two Turkish text fragments: an instruction for a Koran reading based on hadith (57b-58a); and a fragment of a prayer prescription (2 lines, 63b). Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, 29 September 2000.

Cod.Or. 25.721 A miscellany An oblong notebook with a plethora of texts, mostly poems, occasionally in Arabic and Turkish, and written in various directions. The texts, in various hands, ranging from neat ta ‘lik down to hardly legible §ikeste, were probably compiled by one or more Bekta§i shaykhs in the 19th century, possibly also earlier. A colophon to one prose fragment (40b, quoted below) contains the name of a Dervï§ ibrahlm from Ergirike[s]n (Gjirokastra, Albania). The text runs from two sides: from la to 95b and from 104b to 96a. Various calculations are found on the inner front-board. Notes on the birth of a son called Ca'fer, on Friday 13 §ewal 1283 (18 February 1867), and of a daughter called Fatima, on 19 May 1291 (1875), occur on the inner back-board. We find Turkish verses by the following poets (in alphabetical order): 1. Agehï: a gazel (87a) 2. Ahmed Qelebi Sultan: gazels (79b-80b) 3. AhmedT: a kalenden (101b) 4. Alihl: mesnevf (‘mühümame’) (49a-b); a terkib-i bend (68a) 5. ‘A§ikï: & gazel (64b) 6. ‘Askerï: gazels (72b); a song (74a) 7. Bala: a tahmis (41a); a gazel (65a) 8. Haccf Bekta§: a mesnevf (entitled Kitab-i Makalat, 88b-91b, see plate) 9. Ca'ferf: gazels (7a-8b, 42b-46b, 47b-48b, 51a); a mesnevf (42a-b); a terkib-i bend (47a-b); a tercf‘-i bend on a na't in praise of the Prophet, followed by a series of similar poems, among them a na ‘t in praise of the Imam ‘All (5 lb-