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

headpiece preceding the text on f. 4b. The author and title are also mentioned in a tiny script on f. 3b and again on f. 4a. The work consists of an introduction (4b-8a) and a number of chapters, ‘each devoted to the inculcation of some virtue or the reprehension of some vice or folly’ (HOP III, p. 333). For a detailed description of the contents, see, ibidem, pp. 332-5. (For another copy of the same text and references, see under Cod.Or. 25.724, above.) The work is preceded by various poems and text fragments in different hands: a beyt (la); a miifred and a saying of the Prophet in Arabic (written upside down) (2b); a recipe (3a); and a rhymed dedication (chronogram) of ‘this beautiful book’ to Yüsuf Aga, dated 1133 (1720-1). Begins (4b, after a besmele): <oL£*l * ajLUI e *u I Jjl .iq> Ends (59a): I O a -X» I * tiJUb fj jJj I j jj*. (2) ff. 60a-65a A collection of poems I This undated collection, mostly written in elegant ta'lfk by one copyist, whose hand is also mostly found in other parts of the collection (cf. below under II and following), contains: two anonymous quatrains and a Persian miifred (60a); an anonymous gazel and a gazel attributed to ibn-i Kemal (Kemal Pa§azade) (60b); a series of seven gazels by Sabrï (61a-63a); five miifreds by the same (63a-b); a gazel and a miifred by the same (64a); and a kaside in praise of a mule (esteriye) by Süleyman Efendi (64b-65a, see plate). (3-7) ff. 65b-73b Various brief, undated, texts in Arabic and Turkish, and in various hands. They include: a prayer instruction in Arabic (65b-66a), followed by a magic formula (written in red) with an introduction (3 lines) in Arabic (66b); a distich in Turkish (67a); an Arabic prayer (67b-69a) preceded (67b) by an explanation in Turkish; a quotation in Arabic from the Ay at ash-Shifa, preceded by a tradition, equally in Arabic, of a dream of Abü 1-Qasim al-Qushayrf (d. 465/1072, cf. GAL I, p. 432) who was inspired by the Prophet to use the text for curing his ill son; it is followed by a prayer instruction in Turkish ascribed to the authority of Sa'di