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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 26.046, cont., 26.051)

Khvoy (Persian Azerbaijan) in 1314 (1898-9, cf. the first line, lb) and completed in Diyarbakir, where he had been appointed staff officer of the local division, in 1317/1901-2 (cf. f. la). The work does not seem to have been published, and the manuscript is probably an autograph. The work is preceded by a preface (mukaddime), in which the author states that he wrote the poem to overcome the depressing threat of indifference to Islam. He became inspired to do so on the Day of ‘A$üra (10 Muharrem). The work is dated 1314 (1898-9) and consists of five main parts. The manuscript was written as if it were printed, with a title page, page numbers, modem punctuation (including question and exclamation marks), and extensive numbered footnotes in vowelled Arabic and Turkish. A few marginal additions and pencil stripes.

Bound in dark brown leather with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; white paper; (l)+60+(l) folios; original page numbers 3-120; 195x120 mm; irregular margins; 17 lines; without catchwords; nk‘a\ see also above. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, The Hague, 19 October 2001.

The preface begins (lb): o Aj^LuiJ jT OJ f-A * aijjA £ jl liLj tfjs-db JLu The work proper begins (3a): J Iba jAJI ^ >; r * ^ Ajj (jl.'i I j) Ends (60b):

jh4* ^in ^aJI jfclï~’iI * jtI Jjt <t hm aLI &II» a

Cod.Or. 26.051

Turkish bureaucratic annotations

Three copies of hiiccets with Arabic texts. The documents were hand-written on sheets of paper with, in the case of C, a printed heading in Turkish. Stamps with tugras were affixed (to C and D), and bureaucratic annotations in Arabic and Turkish (in rik'a script) added, also on the verso sides. Acquired from G.J.O. Bouwman, The Hague, 19 October 2001.

(A) A hilccet - the term is also mentioned on the verso - concerning a commercial transaction, issued by the Mahkamat al-Kubra, known as al-Bazürïya, at Damascus, dated (in the last lines) 21 §ewal 1276 (12 May 1860). The text is