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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.221-8, cont.)

Deputies, 25 October 1915, a folded sheet, one column; and excerpts in Dutch, mostly of Turkish newspaper articles, on the Ottoman-German treaty of 1917); a cover of an exercise book, with one leaf - the inner covers contain a small Dutch-Turkish wordlist and a paradign of the Arabic verb JjJs, incomplete; a Dutch tranlation in various copies, typed on folded leaves, of the Ottoman- German consular treaty of 11 February 1917; a cardboard wrapper with various literary and linguistic notes, newspaper excerpts in Dutch, and other annotations, but the bulk is a series of cuttings, mostly from the German/French newspaper Osmanischer Lloyd, on various subjects, but with an emphasis on politics and literature, 1917-8, partly pasted on papers with headings in Dutch indicating the subjects; a typed letter from Aram Berossian, sujet russe, at Kir§ehir, to the Dutch Legation in Istanbul, 21 August 1917; and an envelope with papers on the life and works of Sami Bey Fra§erf (d. 1904), with a photograph of the great scholar; the papers are accompanied by a letter on Dutch Legation paper in French to Kramers, signed J. Willems, and the papers include annotations, partly in German, by Kramers, and a biography in French (2 pages); an excerpt of the Revue d’Orient et de Hongrie, 20 January 1902 (French, same hand, 2 pages), and a list of publications (Turkish, nk'a, one page); an envelope with various bibliographical notes with Arabic and Persian quotations; a typed note from the University of London, School of Oriental Studies, 25 September 1935, inviting Kramers to contribute to the Grierson Festschrift [which he did: ‘Military Colonization of the Caucasus and Armenia under the Sassanids’, in Indian and Iranian Studies presented to George Abraham Grierson on his Eighty-Fifth Birthday, 7 January 1936 (BSOAS 8, 1935-7), pp. 613-8]. Or. 14.227b The file contains two exercise books, entitled Volkenrecht I, Duitsch-Turksch consulair verdrag (11II ’17) and Volkenrecht II, Duitsch-Turksche Verdragen (11 II ’17), with a text of the Ottoman-German treaties of 1917 in Dutch, 43 numbered pages; a German translation of a new code of Ottoman family law, issued on 31 December 1917 (4 pages, typescript); a series of notes in Dutch and transcribed Turkish by Kramers on an Ottoman act proposing the adoption of European time-reckoning (8 leaves); a copy (printed) of the records of the Ottman Senate, Meclis-i a ‘yanih iabt cendesi, third year, session of 5 March 1333/1917, pp. 369-514; five copies of The Ethiopian Herald, January-February 1946; a copy of the French newspaper Le Soir, edited by Ahmed ihsan, Istanbul, No. 464 (1 December 1917); a copy of the newspaper Tanfn, No. 3196 (5 November 1917);