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ACQUISITIONS OF 1980-7 (Or. 17.109, cont., 17.110)

Latin, Greek, Armenian, Hebrew and Cyrillic scripts, and show a number of years between 1840 and 1851, and between [1]256 (1840-1) and 1271 (1854-5). Some seals have texts in Arabic script, among them a seal, with a coat of arms, of the Embassy of Sardinia (2a), and one of the French dragoman Dupré («jjj.», 2b). Various jottings, calculations, and notes, one of which is dated 10 Cemaii l-ahir [1]277 (24 December 1860), in more than one script and handwriting occur on f. 3a. A series of Ottoman seals with legends in Arabic script, mostly only with names of men (among them the Dutch consul in Izmir, Jacques [Jacob] van Lennep with the year 1257 (1841-2), f. 16b; see on him Schmidt, Opium Trade, p. 2, passim) but sometimes with a function, like ‘mutasarnf of Rodos’ (Rhodes, 22a), follow on f. 3a up to f. 27a. These are dated between 1171 (1757-8) and [1]277 (1860-1). Fewer seals are found on f. 30a, 32a, 33b (a seal of the shahbandar of Iran at the Porte, with an escutcheon) and 35b. A signature of ‘Abdurrahman Necib occurs on f. 24a. Rebound in boards covered in black cloth; a yellow ribbon; glazed varicoloured paper with squares lined by gold borders within black lines; (l)+l+36+(l) folios; 182x170 mm; a headpiece with floral motives in gold, pink and white, with the name of Allah in black, is found on f. 3b (see plate). Acquired from E.J. Brill, Leiden, March 1981.

Cod.Or. 17.110 A miscellany on mysticism This volume contains treatises on subjects related to the Nak§bendiye order of dervishes, in Turkish and Arabic. The texts are arranged in two volumes with differently coloured paper, and separately numbered. The year 1318 (1900-1) appears in colophons on pp. 7, 26 and 26 (second series); these are followed by an illegible signature. The texts were copied by Yahya Agah b. Salih islambolf, post-nisin at the teke of Erdi Baba in Davudpa§a, Istanbul (see colophons on p. 26 and 26, second series), for shaykh EyiibT Tal'at Efendi, as is noted (in Persian) at the end of most texts. Some marginal additions by the copyist. The collection is preceded by an index.