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ACQUISITIONS OF 2000-2 (Or. 25.721, cont.)

42. §ahidï: a gazel (73a) 43. §ems(f): gazels (63a, 101b) 44. Senayi: gazels (76a) 45. SeyfT (Seyfiillah): gazels in explanation of the Twelve [Imams] (9b, 13b-14a); a quatrain (51a); gazels (66a, 67a-b, 75b) 46. Sirri: a gazel (65b) 47. ÜmmT: a gazel (65b) 48. ‘U§§akï: gazels (73a) 49. Usülï: gazels (62b, 69a-68b) 50. Vahdetï: songs (14a) 51. VIran Abdal (VfranI): a salat name (12b); poems (in song format) in explanation of the Twelve Imams (13a); gazels (19a, 20a); na'ts in praise of ‘All (19b); a quatrain (20a); song fragments (20a-b) 52. Yahya: gazels (65b, 73a) 53. (‘A§ik) Yünus: gazels (30b, 50a) 54. ZindanI: mesnevis (98b-a), with sermons in Arabic (98a-97a) There are quite a few items whose authorship is unclear: a terci‘-i bend (la-b); gazels (2a, 3b margin, 17a, 41a-b, 49b, 50a, 50b, 59a, 76b ); a gazel, each distich of which begins with a subsequent letter of the alphabet (76a); beyts (6 lines in Arabic, 5b); (a part of) the seventh and eighth chapters of a mesnevi entitled der beydn-i ta'nfii §-§eytan-i la‘in (6a-b); a riddle (9a); songs (9a, 74a, 74b, 99a [mentioning Haccf Bekta§ repeatedly]); a song, the distichs of which begin with the consecutive letters of the alphabet; a miinacat (18b); mesnevis (47a, 63b, 75b); an ilahi (47b); nefests (61b-62a); various fragments (68b, 73b, 75b, 80b-82a); Arabic poems (upside down, 103a, 102a); destans (103b, 103a); fragments in Arabic and Persian, one of which is attributed to Sa‘dï (99b); riddles (99b); fragments in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (100a); and a serna'i(100b). Lengthy poems or songs in two and three columns, and written in bad §ikeste, partly illegible, occur on ff. 104b-a; the name of Kütahï found in the penultimate line on f. 104a. A quatrain on Turks, twice in different, crude hands, occurs on the inner back-board; the signature of Ahmed Efendi, with the dates of 15 and 25 Kanun-i ewel (December) 1289 (1873) appears beneath them. The volume also contains a few Turkish prose fragments which are difficult to identify. Thus we find on ff. 23b-30b (a part of) a treatise in florid rhymed prose alternated by verses on, mostly, the qualities of boza, wine, coffee, opium, bertj and other intoxicants. It contains some references to Istanbul, and begins (on 23b):