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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.580, cont., 14.581, 14.582)

Acquired from S.H. Alic, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.

Cod.Or. 14.581 Two lines by Bala Efendi This undated manuscript contains two treatises on the endowment (vakf) of cash money in Arabic: (1), ff. Risalat [ftjawaz al-waqf] an-nuqad, by the seyhülislüm Ebüssu'üd (d. 982/1574), cf. GAL II, p. 438, No. 4 (see also Ahmet Akgündüz ‘Ebüssuüd Efendi’, in TDVIA, Vol. 10, p. 370, No. 4), followed by (2), ff. 15a- 40b, a refutation, Risalat as-Sayf as-Sarim ft ‘adam jawaz waqf an-nuqad, by Birgili Mehmed Efendi (d. 981/1573), cf. GAL. II, p. 441, No. 12. The title page, f. la, contains two lines by Bala Efendi, supposedly said at the end of his life: 'alayif-i dünyadan el gekmege niyet var/ yaktnda ‘adem derler bir $ehre azimet var.’ Acquired from S.H. Alió, Donje Mostre, Yugoslavia, April 1979.