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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.665, cont., 23.666)

lines; catchwords; nesih\ headings, rubrics and Arabic quotations in red; red borders on ff. 5a and 6b; without a date or name of a copyist. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996. Begins (lb, after a besmele): -jI• * juli LI ... *'r—-'T LJjrfif j jIf j] a^L^JI j jj all t II ljj Ao<II t-> ui$ j±*- Ale. ^u-L- j J-»- v3->- a5JjI j ,| . • Ll jlft t—3 J I I > I 4 I I l)_i lAJU Ll HI aI j C ^jh fllj I j't 1*1 «Ijl o All I 6 ■>■ j A j (jÜLvJjl (JiS <uLj J Ends (16b): 5-1 ... a Li ^1 LLw Lij hi -N~i LH->^ Mijl dP j . - ■ ^ *1.1 j^y>| *" ■ • I.L-J 3I a Li jL ilï j^i Uhlb» c-)jA)l I Aj La ^Jl jaL l-jLtUI The concluding poem ends (17b): L>J aJI jjLj a Aj ■ * — - Aj A * <u Lit LUL jjAj 3 a j$J a£ ^ Li CJ jjl* ^JLai Lij 111 L)^4 ü^Ls

Cod.Or. 23.666 Nazm el-al An undated copy of a versified Arabic-Turkish dictionary by shaykh Ahmed Qarbm. The work was completed, according to the chronogram in the penul timate verse (quoted below) which also mentions the title, in 1052 (1642-3). The work is rare, and both the title and the name of the author, mentioned in the two catalogues referred to below, are rendered differently (Nazm li’al, and Tacname [mentioned in the first line] or Nazmii l-le ’all [which actually occurs in f. 28b: 12]; ‘Carpin’ and Carbln’). The work is preceded by an introduction (lb-5a) in which the author makes it clear that the work is meant to make learning Arabic words easier for boys, and was based on the example of §ahidl’s dictionary (lb:ll, cf. Cod.Or. 12.248, above), and as an alternative for the confusing dictionary of Firi§teogli (2a:3, see Cod.Or. 25.760(1), below). The author also praises his late father, Shaykh ‘Osman el-Mar‘a$I, for stimulating him in his studies (3b-4a). The main work is divided into a series of brief chapters in mesnevi or monorhyme exemplifying all possible metres, from münsarih to remel. The last chapters (from f. 27a onwards) show various rhyme patterns.