339

1309/1894. The text is a play by Namik Kemal and was possibly based on a printed edition, published some years earlier. Rare treatises on, mostly, religious matters by obscure Bosnian scholars are found in Codices 14.556 and 14.562, both mecmu'as dating from the 18th century. Rare is also a mid 19th-century Albanian translation (in Arabic script) of Fuzülï’s Hadika-i $u ‘ada by Sa‘fd ffoca b. ‘Osman, who also wrote Turkish poetry under the pen-name of Kemterf, an example of which is found in the manuscript (Or. 14.636). A not further documented text is found in Or. 14.639, which contains a translated treatise, 19th century, in defence of Shiism.

Cod.Or. 12.465

A miscellany The volume contains two works, clearly written by the same copyist in the mid 19th century. A distich written in pencil is found on f. la. (1) ff. lb-80b

Divan

A copy of a collection of poems by ‘ Azbï Mustafa Efendi, also known as Dervï§ Azbf (d. 1149/1736 or 1160/1747). The title ‘Divan-i hazret-i ‘AgbC is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb. The collection consists of poems/songs of the gazel format and in divan sequence, alternated with shorter fragments, mostly quatrains in monorhyme, and hemistichs functioning as refrains.

Begins (lb, after a besmele): ■1JÏ 0^3* j-di-t * lii» J-iiLij <rJ3A»l jV*»- aiï L>!.a j^J^I Ends (80b): Lr* 3 tx* W * >3 I a L^>- Colophon (ibidem): \ V A* a ‘ ■ “ n aLaj

Catalogue entries: Divanlar, pp. 741-4. Edition: Istanbul 1284.

Literature: ‘OM I, p. 128; Divanlar, p. 741.