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ACQUISITIONS OF 1996-9 (Or. 23.656, cont., 23.658)

double margins, the beautiful names of Allah and Muhammad; the names of the first four caliphs are also mentioned. Four diagonal lines in each table contain phrases in Turkish on the same subject. Purchased from Mrs. I. Acker-Van Eijk in Leiden in July 1996.

Cod.Or. 23.658 Asaru l-Mwjtak esraru l- ‘u$$ak jLluUI j)>o>) jh *t o It jLJT A mid 19th-century copy of a work on the lives and teachings of a number of shaykhs by Mü§tak [-i DIdar, cf. below] under the pen-name of Mustafa Efendi of Bitlis, Kadirïye shaykh at the tekke of SelamI Efendi at Eyiib and author of a divan (cf. Götz I, p. 272). He died in 1247 (1831-2). The title is mentioned in the introductory parts (cf. below); the pen-name of the author is found throughout the work, mostly in red. The text is divided into four distinct parts in this volume. The prose is alternated by a great many verses of the author and includes autobiographical anecdotes. The work seems to be rare and only one manuscript seems to be documented (cf. below). It is mentioned in 'OM II, p. 421, but not in the te^kere by Fatln Efendi, Hatimetii l-e$‘ar (Istanbul 1271), p. 376. A few corrections were made in the text or added in the margins. The last pages (195b- 196b) contain five gazels by Rasim and one by Seyyid ‘All Vasfl, copied in a different hand. (1) ff. 2b-6b Part of the introduction, incomplete at the end, which includes anecdotes on a black slave girl, Firdawsl of Tüs and his Shahnama, and a description of a dream ‘seen’ by the author. The latter explains that he decided to complete an [undocumented] work, seven of the twenty-seven parts (cüz ’) of which had been written by the miiderris and poet, Seyyid ‘Osman Nun DIdar Beg Efendi (d. 1256/1840, cf. ‘OM II, p. 173; SO 2 IV, p. 1298), son of [the ma'den emini\ ‘Abdl Pa§a, servant of the Grand Vizier [of Georgian origin] el-Hacc Yüsuf Ziya Pa§a (d. 1226/1811-2, cf. SO 2 V, pp. 1701-2). On completion, he had the book checked by a number of süfis, Kadirïye and Nak§bendlye shayks residing in Tiblis, Erzurum, Istanbul and other places. The final blessing to it was given by a shaykh, ‘Uryanl Baba of Tiblis, by saying three times: ‘asar-i Miistak esraru l-‘us$ak’ (6a: 15), which became the title of the book. Elsewhere the work is also