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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 26.256, cont., 26.257, 26.258)

Bound in paper, red with green and gold motifs on the outside; white paper without watermarks; 3+79+2 pages, with original numbers; 244x165 mm; irregular, mostly slanting, rik‘a\ rubrics, occasional lines and page numbers in red up to p. 37; without a date and the name of a copyist. A note in pencil: ‘Istanbul 1971’, is found on the inside of the front-cover. Acquired from Dr Menno Hekker; registered in December 2002.

Cod.Or. 26.257 A miscellany An exercise book, most pages of which have been left blank, with annotations made by Mehmed Behcet Begzade Ahmed ‘izzet Efendi, student of the mekteb-i rü§dïye-i ‘askeriye (his inscriptions are found on ff. la and 66b). The date (?) 1282 (1866-7) is found on f. 66b. The annotations are mostly related to courses in geometry (ff. 3b-10a - the title ‘hendese-i hatttye defteri’ is found on f. 4a) and arithmetic (64a-51b - the title ‘ ‘ilm-i hesab defteri’ occurs on f. la). Apart from these main texts there are notes on courses, as well as various jottings and crude drawings (inner front-board); a conversion table for fractions (lb); notes on logic (based on ‘Ïsagücï/Eisagoge) (2a); and calculations and notes on arithmetic (23b- 25b, 30a, 30b, 39b-46a, 47b-48a). Bound in boards covered in varicoloured paper with dark brown leather back and edges; cream paper without watermarks; 66 folios; 172x135 mm; irregular rik'a. Acquired from Dr Menno Hekker; registered in December 2002.

Cod.Or. 26.258 A letter A draft ferman with interlinear corrections and only partly readable. It is addressed to Mevlana Mehmed b. Hüseyn, concerning personnel of the Bayezfd Mosque at Sivas, dated 1 Receb 1251 (23 October 1835), at Istanbul. Admi nistrative notes and an owner’s inscription of Kadrf Efendi occur on the back. White paper, damaged by moisture; worn and repaired along the edges; 420x520