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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.599, cont.)

signs of the Zodiac (mintaka el-bürüc) (27b-29a); horoscopes for the dates of 3 §ewal 1188 (7 December 1774, with a marginal note on the death of Shaykh Mustafa, post-nifin of the tekke of Qalak, on 5 Zil-ka'de 1220/25 January 1806) and 26 §a‘ban 1212 (13 February 1798), the birth date of Neffse - according to a marginal note, she died on 4 Ramazan 1217 (29 December 1802, 31a); astro logical calculations with Arabic explanations (3 lb-33a); a Turkish prescription for drawing an astrological table (33b); and a horoscope dated 22 Zil-hicce [1]214 (17 May 1800, 41a). Recipes also hold an important place. They are: for various types of ink and vinegar (6b-7a); a prescription and recipe for treatment of chest tightness (20b); for oils, ambergris, various types of ink, and drinks (21a-23b); for candle oil and ink (27a); for red ink (29b); for perfume (40a); for verdigris, ber$, eye ointment, and various other medicines (51b-53a). Almost all are in Turkish. Finally we find: tables showing the equivalents of (supposedly) Hebrew and ‘RflmT letters (5b, see plate); a table comparing weights of various substances (6a); a list with three items and amounts (of money?), Istanbul, [1]218 (1803-4, 6b); a hemistich of a chronogram, dated 24 §a‘ban [1]218 (9 December 1803^ 6b); an incomplete Arabic sentence, headed a^Lu (8a); drawings of intersecting circles (9a-10a) relating to the mechanism of striking clocks (palar sa‘at)\ an Arabic text fragment on the letters of the alphabet found in the Koran (1 lb)’; an Arabic prayer (20a); a series of rhythms consisting of the syllables 'tek' and ‘düm' to be used in the cadences (usat) of various metres and types of song, followed by a description of various sequences and a circular table of makams (24a-25b); descriptions of the use of makams for varying instruments (26a-b); a table with musical terms and names of compositions and players (48b); a prescription for the use of various makams at various hours of the day (52a); and a list with various goods and numbers, and the name of isma'ïl b. ÜmTye (53b). Bound in boards with brown leather back and edges; glazed cream paper; 54 folios (some have been tom out, one (41a) has lost a half); 174x120 mm; texts and drawings in various formats; neat ncsih in various hands. Acquired from Christie’s, London, April 1979.