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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 20.400, cont., 20.401)

k _ y lc. jjI- j <UI jl u iil-><^>) (j-JI o^L-t (_j.Lt. |»iL^ j <dJ a*»JI Ends (123a): aJI 11 a (j^S jJ» jjk i^ut a I ai» tlb L-i I jLJjj ojiU aJLc. jj I>j j Catalogue entries: Fihris 2896-7 (II, p. 338); Karatay 194. Literature: ‘OM I, p. 167.

*** Bound in boards with a flap and dark brown leather backing and edges; glazed cream to white paper; the title ‘rub'-i SelTml ceyb ve mukantar[at]' is written on the bottom edge; 125 folios - the top margin of the last folio has been tom off; 151x105 mm and 100x55 mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; nesih with ta 'lik elements; headings, rubrics and lines in red; red borders on ff. 114a-125b; (2) was copied in 1162 (1748-9); without the name of a copyist. Acquired from Fatatri in May 1987.

Cod.Or. 20.401 A miscellany This mid 19th-century volume contains two works on mathematics clearly copied by one and the same copyist, Müftïzade Ahmed HilmT, who mentions himself in a colophon on f. 44b. (1) ff. 2a-44b An Arabic work on geometry, illustrated with drawings, dedicated to the Timurid Sultan Ulugh Beg (cf. 2b:5, ruled 850/1447-853/1449). The first page (lb), apart from the borders, has been left blank. (2) ff. 47b-108b Risale-i ‘ilm-i hesab (a jL Cr *<dLu/j A copy of a manual on arithmetic by Mehmed Nüzhet (d. 1304/1886). It is fol-