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Cod.Or. 17.104 Dasitdn-i Varka vü Gül§ah a LUS j aÏjj jL-o/Ij An incomplete copy of a poem, in mesnevf rhyme, on the romance of Varka and Giil§ah by the meddah Yüsufï. The author mentions himself in f. 57b: 10. Copies of this work are rare (cf. Ertaylan’s edition, pp. 35-6). It consists of 1700 distichs (58a:3) and was written in 770 (1368/9, cf. Ertaylan’s edition, p. 2; the distich which gives this information is not found in the present copy). Our copy misses 48 distichs at the beginning, compared with the facsmile edition, and the second chapter, meelis, begins on f. 10b. One or more quires moreover, seem to be missing in the fifth chapter between ff. 36b-37a. The work proper ends in a rhymed colophon with the date 1 Muharrem 1145 (24 June 1732) and the place- name of Gümü§ban[e] (1732-3, 58a:5-6), and is followed by another undated, rhymed colophon in red (possibly not related to the previous one) with the name of the copyist Ebübekir b. Hasan (58a: 11). A few rude marginal additions, partly illegible by trimming. A pious line, in red, by the copyist, and additional jottings are found on f. 58b. Partly bound and kept in a provisional cover of a book published by E.J. Brill; partly glazed cream paper with stains; 58 folios; 200x135 mm and 160x110 mm, varying; 11 lines; catchwords; irregular vowelled nesih; headings and colophon in red; for further data, see above. Acquired from E.J. Brill, Leiden, March 1981. Begins (la): ,_jj| Ux. Ji* ®bÜS Ends (58a): aLI fJa* ^ jj t£l*LUS 4ÏJ3 Colophon (ibidem): . jJu *3* aSiIj, hi «5 f-ijb br* A -4 " (4JjL-o ^Jb * 4i èit (jlu j3i ‘ 1 1.' .• a^iAojLï b Jx.LÜjl$ aK~.«J-j * Ojb