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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.102, cont., 17.103)

a prayer prescription (ibidem); a text on magical misra‘s used by the $eyhülislam Ebüssu'üd (la); a series of recipes for allaying bile, for preparing sulphuret of copper, and others (26b). Bound in boards with dark brown leather back and edges; glazed cream paper, stained, worn and partly restored; 1+26+1 folios; 209x157 mm and 165x110 mm, varying; 17 lines; catchwords; nesih; headings, rubrics and numbers in red; completed in Muharrem 1129 (December 1716 - January 1717); the year 1132 (1719-20) has been added to the colophon (26a); owners’ inscriptions with seals of Ahmed Nazlf b. el-Hacc Hiiseyn b. el-Hacc Mehmed b. el-Hacc Ahmed es- Samakovï, müderris at Edime and muvakkit at the Old Mosque (la, 26a), and of Kogici Haccf ‘Ömer Aga, a merchant of Varna (last flyleaf, recto). Acquired from Ê.J. Brill, March 1981.

Begins (lb, after a besmele): W t_- ^ oO* Wt 1 A-mjji 1 A**** 1 Jj 1 *3**-* *3 aJLmJ JiL ... ^jls Li-di % I"■ • '•■J 3 joJubLoM ljl>* j IjIjS

Ends (26a): i iLiad aJLI Aiuu oiiJ O* 3 *!* j !_■ »* I Colophon (ibidem)'. \ J .*«- 3 -< « 3 cjjl 3 4jL> 4JLut i^j-3 u-ILaj Ü++ 1 ‘I '» OAA CiM \ \ YS a *i i» |S

Cod.Or. 17.103 §emsiye 4 -‘ “ ,A *" A late 17th-century century copy of a poem, in mesnevi rhyme, by Yazici Salahuddln of Gallipoli (flourished early 15th century). The name of the author is found in f. 16b:5; the title in f. 16b:8. The work is also known as Melheme, or even Melhame, which title is mentioned in the heading preceding the text on f. 4a and in the colophon (115b). Cevri Efendi (d. 1065/1654, cf. Götz II, 367), the author of a Melhame based on the §emsiye, is erroneously stated to be the