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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 14.654, cont.)

on the second unnumbered flyleaf, recto, and on f. la. The collection commences with a fetva ascribed to the late seyhiilislam Minkarïzade Yahya Efendi. This is followed by fetvds whose authorship is not further specified and which are arranged in a great many chapters devoted to special subjects, from canonical ablutions (at-tahara) to the value of oral statements in litigation about bequested estates, and specified in (Arabic) headings. The work is preceded by a ten-page index. A description of the contents, the name of the author/compiler, the year of his death, and the language of the work, based on ‘Asamial-kutub’ (= Katib Qelebi s Kashf az-Zunün, cf. Cod.Or. 11.719), is found on the second flyleaf, recto. A biographical note of the compiler is found on f. la, according to which he died in Bursa at the end of Z/ l-hicce 1128 (6-15 December 1716) while he was still in office. Some marginal additions, mostly prooftexts drawn from various sources.

Boards covered in cloth, not belonging to the original manuscript; glazed cream paper; lower edge blackened by fire; 7+283 + 1 folios; original foliation in red; 320x170 mm and 217x87 mm; 39 lines; without catchwords; small, calligraphic nesih; headings and rubrics in red; multiple borders in gold within black, occasionally red, lines; a magnificent headpiece with floral motifs in gold, green,' red, blue and orange on f. lb (see plate); a simpler headpiece in gold precedes the index; without a date or name of a copyist; owners’ inscriptions of ‘Abdulkadir b. Mehmed Emin with a seal showing the year 1178 (1764-5), and of Emfnzade Mehmed Emin, kail of Galata, dated 1 Rébi'ü l-evvel [1]206 (20 October 1791) (la). Acquired from Th.G. Appelboom, Groningen, January 1980. Begins (lb, after a besmele): aLI ai aJLj ^i ju j Ends (283a): cA-PjJ+P t4JjJ aJsjI j ljL £.LS aJj( j fjjjjlS *4 I > t4JJAC k_ll^>JI ... Catalogue entries: Fihris 3550-2 (III, p. 164). Literature: ‘OM II, p. 27.