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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996 9 (Or. 25.402, cont., 25.409)

5 August 1999. It contains various letters and documents, dated 1980, with an accompanying note from Mrs. Hofman-van Boven. These concern exertions by Ali Berberoglu, director of the Vahit Pa§a il Halk Kütüphanesi at Kiitahya, for a year’s sojourn in Holland in order to obtain a master’s degree or preferably a doctorate in library science or history. (Hofman had met and spoken with the man in the library at Kiitahya, cf. the first letter.) There are six typed Turkish letters, with a visiting card from Ali Berberoglu to Hofman (dated 6.1, 24.3, 25.4, 30.7, 16.9, and 11.11.1980), with accompanying (copies of) official Turkish documents, a draft letter by Hofman to be addressed to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, and a copy of a Turkish letter, with a curriculum vitae, from Ali Berberoglu to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (dated 10.9.1980). 2. A bound carbon copy of a handlist of Arabic manuscripts kept at the Tav§anli Zeytinoglu Public Library at Kiitahya, entitled Tav$anli Zeytinoglu Halk Kütüphanesi Arapga Yazmalar Katalogu. (It was sent to Hofman by Ali Berberoglu, the author, in 1980. See under 1, letter of 25.4.1980) 3. Three envelopes with drafts of articles in Dutch, with Turkish translations, on early (late 15th- and early 16th-centuries) Ottoman-South-East Asian relations based on, it seems, Malay and Portuguese sources. One of the articles was a guest lecture, probably held in Turkey, which resulted in a typed version entitled ‘istanbul’da Hang Tuah’, two carbon copy versions of which are included. 4. An envelope with a draft in English, Dutch and Turkish of an essay entitled ‘Orduyi Humayun’. 5. A collection of documents and (draft) letters kept in various folders concerning the national curriculum for Turkish at secondary school level and the examiniation of translators for the same language in the Netherlands, 1972-1997. (Hofman assisted in designing various courses and, from 1984 he was chairman of the National Examination Committee for Turkish.)

Cod.Or. 25.409 Turkish text fragments This manuscript contains a miscellany of, mostly, Arabic texts on grammar and