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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.163, cont., 17.164)

he was only the copyist; in the following colophon the ‘AIT of his name was later changed to Mustafa. The work is preceded by an introduction (lb-3a) with a survey of the forty topics (‘questions’) discussed in the book, covering subjects from the creation of the world to its final destruction. (For other copies of the work and references, see under Cod.Or. 12.371(3), above.)

Begins (lb, after a besmele):

a***-® a aJI * 1 ail*. (jlt fiUJI a «>UJI a ó*aJUJI uj *L a**ji a «b* *1*1 yib* li*** ü*jl a kiLbi j.-• -»- 1 ••• ^ jAi* *ibj l)AjU>I jiüla S.ijkJ)

Ends (82b-83a): y? >baLIiL jlal.ua ^jJJSLÏ j'ijl aAj>LjV3 <j_»j j ... ÜJj-» i <-»>ï,jA &3J fiUul yAjA jJjAjjA j*» AiUjI ü jW (jjAa LS a qj»<»'«■'«*■« UL L5 3J j Aia^S JUS ^Lu 3 aj Uu. ... jL * L y 1 ^ ^■uAK.aa.aJI A*»«, j^JAaJI fcU-i j j V-r-ft®.j jAiS ^ jiujjA jIIaLS y (^AiS U_‘ * I'« • «> (>>-Ia Aj ali j lit r 1 a .*» »l... 3 .»_■ I«- al/l sAjUu®*» jjj ALaLajl Ai>».T jALiA aAlïj jiT ^ xl.a L wth aa^j A-Jjl aI^j jUuf ^ >•» Lui®. (_» jjj j «>«>11 Us» ^>aj>Li A A^Jtj cl4*a 33 ÓJ a H 1II Uj all Aa®JI j ch^aA'IjJI a®-jl Colophon (83a):

' ' 4* AAau jUjLï ^ ^jJi I-»,,-» a (jlujjA ljUSJI

♦♦♦ Rebound in boards with flap covered in varicoloured marbled paper and with grey-green cloth edges and backing; (1) glazed cream paper; (1)+130+(1) folios; 210x150 mm and (1) 170x110 mm, varying; (1) 17 lines; catchwords; (1) neat nesih\ completed by (1) Dervf§ ‘All/Mustafa (cf. above) in 1151 (1738-9), and (2) by Mehmed b. Mehmed Aga at Palanka-i Cedfd in 1160 (? 1747). Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, June 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.164 A poem and a heading in Turkish This manuscript contains an undated copy of an Arabic commentary on a religious work, incomplete at the beginning. A Turkish poem, in gazel format (8 distichs),