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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.120, cont., 17.121)

nesih\ headings, rubrics, lines and borders in red; double red borders on ff. 2b-3; without a date or name of a copyist. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981. Begins (2b): t , ^ aA j UU LiLiJ aI ij > II ^ Ends (106b): jLijS S * t ■ II Aj I Jlc. I—) JJU I llhi L)* J - * ^ éjjt II jJ ^U-eJjl

Cod.Or. 17.121 Kitab-i Ustuvani Mehmed Efendi ***** A late 18th-century copy of an anonymous treatise on the tenets of Islam, in particular on questions regarding public worship and praying. It was recorded by a student from the teachings of his master, Ustuvani Mehmed Efendi Dimi$kl (d. 1072/1661), who for a time was preacher in Istanbul. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb. The work commences with a brief introduction (lb-2a). A few marginal additions with indications of content. For descriptions of the content, the biography of the master and references, see Rieu, pp. 13-4; Rossi, p. 82. (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 17.122 and 17.136, below.) Jottings, mostly separate letters, occur on ff. la, 6b (margins). The work is followed (84b-87a) by a short treatise on prayers. Various prescriptions with prayer texts are found on f. 87b (written upside down, with a marginal addition). Three tattered leaves with various text fragments, among these prayers and administrative notes, are found between ff. 8b-9a, 37a-b and 42b-43a. Bound in worn and patched dark brown leather; coarse white paper; 87 folios; 213x155 mm and 150x110 mm, varying; 19 (lb-6b) and 15 (7a-87a) lines; catchwords; coarse nesili in two different hands, vowelled from f. 7a; headings and rubrics in green and red (from f. 7a); black borders on ff. 62b-63a, a colophon (89b) in red; completed on 8 Safer 1193 (25 February 1779); without the name of a copyist. Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.