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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.124, cont.)

cf. Orhan $aik Gökyay in El 2 ]. We find quotations from the chapters on bribery and on the controversy between Ebüssu‘üd Efendi and Birgili Mehmed Efendi (see G.L. Lewis, The Balance of Truth by K&tib Chelebi (London 1957), p. 124 ff.). The first part begins (53a): Lj Ajj+i. 3 AaSL». jj aLI jj-aS 3i* The second part begins (54a): J31 jluj JjjuaII *jI 4* 1 ... O J J f. 55b A note on the role and duties of the Ottoman Sultan headed Vastyet-name, it begins: Ai, ■ - ■ T_- ‘ II yjl A~> iF»Iai Jut 3 *1)1 o^jl flil aLi jL If jl AaL» »«~>j ... i_jjajI f-~<l a^iilj ijj j aLI pic. ... jaS Apart from these more substantial texts, the volume contains a few brief treatises and a letter in Arabic (24b-26a, 27b, 30b), as well as a plethora of verses and prose fragments of varying lengths in Arabic (mostly devotional texts), Persian (rarely), and Turkish, in various hands (first unnumbered folio, verso, to 2a, 24a- 28a, 30a-31a, 34a-85b). Among the Turkish texts we find: a question on belief and disbelief, answered by Kemal Pa§azade (2a, 6 lines); a quatrain (ibidem); a gloss on the meaning of the besmele (24a, 3 lines); a prayer prescription and a magic square preceded by an explanation (26a, 8 lines); a gloss on the meaning of ‘ «ill (26b, 5 lines); a note on two categories of writers, hasstand zihnt (ibidem, 5 lines); a note on the essential knowledge necessary for students of (ibidem, 5 lines); a series of prayer prescriptions, quoted from Dürer el- ‘akayid and other sources (27a, 20 lines, and 27a, 20 lines); a note on the Prophet Yüsuf based on Ahmed Bican’s Envaru l-‘a§iktn (30a, 5 and 4 lines); glosses on the meaning of various words in Arabic and Turkish (quoted from various dictionaries, 34a, see plate); a note on the “ilmtye functions of döni$mend, molla, müctehid, and rasili, headed ‘itlak-i insdniye (38b, 12 lines); Arabic words and expressions with Turkish explanations in smaller script (40a); a note on the sedd-i iskender (40b, 8 lines); a question: they ruled the world, they were two Muslims and two unbelievers - answer: Nimriid and Buhtunnasr, Sulayman and Dhü 1-qamayn (ibidem); notes on Lokman and Aristotle (41a, 7 and 5 lines); a