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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.503, 12.583)

Cod.Or. 12.503 A ferman An original copy of a letter of appointment (emr-i serif, berat) to a Dutch consul in Jidda issued on request of the Dutch Embassy in Istanbul to Mr N[icolaas] Scheltema (cf. Adviezen Snouck Hurgronje II, p. 1426n) after the retirement of C[arel] C[hnstaan] M[ariaan] Henny who had obtained his appointment by berdt on 1 Zilhicce 1321 (18 February 1904, cf. ibidem, p. 1395n), with a survey of his duties in conformity with the existing treaty ('ahdname), dated 28 Receb 1323 (28 September 1905). Cream paper, pasted on linen; 1000x580 mm; 13 lines; divan!in black, red and gold; red tugra of Sultan ‘AbdulhamTd II (cf. Umur, pp. 313-7) (see plate). Gift of Mrs. Pierik, Wapenveld, Gelderland, June 1971.

Or. 12.583 A series of ten folders containing, mostly, black-and-white phographs of manuscript texts, but also of buildings and inscriptions, as well as various annotations and letters. These had belonged to Franz Taeschner and came with his collection bought from Brill in 1970 (see the Introduction to Chapter 2, above). Notes on content and provenance in his handwriting are found on the photographs. Or. 12.583a A series of negative black-and-white photographs of MS Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. Turc 9, ff. 1-69, a miscellany on hadith in Arabic, and of Suppl. Turc 17, ff. 2-3, 9-14, 16-100, a collection of futüwetndmes-, another series of eight positive photos of a pedigree (secere) of Mehmed b. Afji Husamiiddm el-Hiiseynf kept in the General Directorate of vakfo at Ankara under No. 1294, accompanied by (1) a typed letter in Turkish from §emel Borkan, Vakiflar Genei Müdürü, dated Ankara 20.9.1966, to Taeschner; and (2) a note in Dutch from a librarian, dated 25.4.1973, that the photographs had been found at Brill’s and had been inserted into the folder. The pedigree is decribed by Taeschner in ‘Beitrage zur Geschichte der Achis in Anatolien (14.-15. Jht.) auf Grund neuer Quellen’ in Islamica 4 (1931), pp. 1-47, 36-7.