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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 26.241, cont., 26.242)

and 164x100 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesili of calligraphic quality; red headings and rubrics; multiple gold borders within black lines; a crude headpiece in gold, blue and orange on f. lb; completed by Hafiz Mehmed ‘Atif, a pupil of es-Seyyid ‘Osman, known as Damad-i ibrahïm el-‘Afïf in 1210 (1795- 6); an partly erased owner’s inscription occurs on f. la. A note in pencil: ‘Istanbul 1971’, is found on the inner front-board. Acquired from Dr Menno Hekker; registered in December 2002. Begins (2b, after a besmele, as in Ate$’s edition, p. 92:1): V$3 jJk a Jlui I 4-Laa» j jJjl * 'i $1 a aj I jS j jl «111 Ends (26b, as in Ate§’s edition, p. 147:60): 1 r (jJbu «III 4 j * (jj «„4 (Jjl Qj ui Ij) .4>l J J.y.*;.«l oljlir> jjj .^Kl •- . * cjiljtli) dj5Lc.Lfi Colophon {ibidem): aLaIaj d8 j j j.«J) jULc. ..I II i j-« l U.in\ t A»,» Ja»i L>- l-a» AaJI jujJI 4+lS cjJI 3 ^)j*i*> U j j ■" «* 4*i hi iduJuUI » ■ a I j -1

Cod.Or. 26.242 Vesïletü n-necat fi mevlüdi n-nebï ‘aleyhi s-salat 5 4jJ f Q IanaJI a I j ■ “ j An undated copy of the same work described under Cod.Or. 26.237, above. Parts of the poem are alternated by quotations from various chapters of the Koran. The title, Mevlüdü n-nebi, is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb. The work ends in a section on the lament of Fatima (from f. 18b), not found in Ate§’s edition, followed by a prayer (münacat, f. 21b); prayers in Arabic prose follow on ff. 22a-24a. Lengthy marginal additions are found on ff. 6a and 11a. Bound in boards with flap covered in blue-green marbled paper with brown and black leather back and edges; a label with the title, Mevlild-i $enfe [sic], and some other data is pasted on the outer front-board; glazed pale yellow to beige paper without watermarks, blotted in some places; (1)+24+(1) folios; 204x160 mm and 150x102 mm; 13 lines; catchwords; vowelled nesih; headings, multiple borders and copyist’s verses in red; golden dots; multiple gold borders within black lines on ff. lb-2a; a crude headpiece in gold, orange, blue and black on f. lb; completed by Mehmed b. isma'fl, imamii 1-vekCl of the Mosque of Sarikiz;