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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.769, cont., 25.770)

Cod.Or. 25.770 A miscellany A collection of works on medicine, undated. The main works, (2) and (3), were apparently copied by one scribe, (1) and (4) by another. These last, shorter texts, written by another scribe, on different paper, seem to have been added to the volume at a later period. The title, Hamse-i Hayative Akradtn [sic] (cf. below), occurs on f. la. A survey of the contents of the main works (6 items) is found f. 3b. Various notes are found on the endpapers: an owner’s inscription of Siiley- man, an inhabitant of the town of Sofia (la); a prescription for curing back pains (7 lines, la); a series of letters, in angular script, and an Arabic text fragment (5 lines) preceded by two headings (lb); a list of goods deposited with ibrahim Aga (in Arabic, 18 items, 2a); a recipe with a list of ingredients (partly lost by trimming) and a recommendation for the texts found in the manuscript (3 lines) (3a); two beyts and a few Arabic text fragments (166b). (1) ff. 4a-5b A succinct dissertation in Turkish and Arabic on the elements of philosophy headed, Bab ft beyani ‘ilmi l-felasife [wrongly spelt asfelafise] beyanindadur.