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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.763, cont.)

written by the copyist: the title Usülü l-mendhic (inner front-board); a Persian gazel by Nasir ‘AH, a Persian quatrian attributed to Sultan Süleyman I, a note on the unbalanced style of the Ahlak-i ‘ala’i, a hadith with a Turkish commentary, two Arabic aphorisms, with a Turkish commentary, a Persian chronogram by NabI on his own death, dated 1134 (1712), and an Arabic quotation (2a); two Arabic beyts attributed to Jahiz and three Persian beyts, partly on a number of prophets (2b); various poetical fragments in Arabic and a quotation from [al- Jahiz’s] Hayat al-haywan (3a); various Arabic verses and brief Turkish texts, both on pious subjects and based on hadith, Persian verses attributed to ibn-i Kemal (Kemal Pa§azade), and a (Turkish) beyt attributed to RamT (4a); a Persian quatrain (4b, margin); a biographical note on Cemall (AJjizade Hiiseyn Efendi, 5a, margin); a lexical gloss based on the [Dictionary of| Ni'metullah (15b, margin); various Arabic and Persian verses, among them at least four Persian lines ‘said by the poets on Celalüddïn ö v arezm§ah’, and an Arabic line from a hadith (91b); advice (nasihat) sent by Ebüssu‘üd Efendi to §ah Efendi when he was kdii of Edime (92b, 17 lines); a hadith on ‘Air, with quotations in Arabic (11 lines), a prayer said by Fatima to ‘All (with a brief explanation in Turkish) and two Persian quatrains (93a); quatrains and verse fragments attributed to NabI and RamT, gazels by Nadin and ‘Arifi, six Arabic words with Turkish explanations (in minute script), and various words and fragments of sentences in Arabic (93b); an Arabic quatrain attributed to Abü ‘All and an Arabic gloss (inner back-board). Bound in dark brown leather with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed white paper; 92 folios, numbered 2-93 (2-73 in original numbers); 210x130 mm and 150x70 mm, varying; 17 lines; catchwords; calligraphic siiliis; headings, rubrics, lines and dots in red; completed by el-Hacc Mehmed b. ‘All b. Ahmed, an inhabitant of Midilli (Lesbos) and an officer in the janissary infantry corps, on a Friday in Zfl-ka‘de 1121 (January 1710); an owner’s inscription with seal, and gold-dusted signature of the copyist, dated 1121(1710), occurs on f. 4a. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, Leiden, January 2001.

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