utrecht, university library · hs. 16 b 17
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A copy of a succinct, anonymous treatise on the division of inheritances. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on p. 177. The text is divided into sections beginning with [ﳇﺪك ]اﻣﺪی. Diagrams are found on pp. 179, 181, 182, 185 and 191 (ṣūrat el-menāsaḫa, which concluded the treatise). Begins (p. 177):
ﺑﺰم ﻋﻠﲈﻣﺰ رﲪﻬﻢ ﷲ ﻋﻠﳱﻢ دﯾﺪﯾﻠﺮ ﻛﻪ ﺗﺮﻩ ﻛﮥ ﻣﯿﺘﻪ ﺣﻘﻮق ارﺑﻌﮥ ﻣﺮﺗﺒﻪ ﺗﻌﻠﻖ اﯾﺪر اوﻻ ﲡﻬﲒ ﺗﻜﻔﲔ ﻗﻀﺎء دﯾﻮن ﺗﻨﻔﯿﺬ وﺻﺎاي ﺑﻘﺴﻢ اﻟﺒﺎﰵ ﺑﲔ اﻟﻮرﺛﻪ Ends (p. 191):
اوچ ا ٓﻟﺘﻮن وﯾﺮن ﺑﻨﺖ ﺑﻜﺮم اوچ ا ٓدلی اول ﺑﺮﳻ ﻫﲈن اون دورت اﻗﭽﻪ ا ٓدلی ﲨﻌﺎ اﻟﳣﺶ اﻗﭽﻪ اودلی و اﻟﺴﻼم *** Bound in embossed dark brown leather with flfap and, originally, gold tooled but very worn insets in Oriental style; glazed cream paper, moisture stains in some places; 196 pages, with original numbers in pencil; 205 × 152 mm and 140×100mm, varying; 19 lines; catchwords; nesiḫ; headings, rubrics, lines and dots in red; () completed by Bekir b. ʿAbdurraḥmān; without a date. Hs. 16 B 17
A miscellany A collection of two works, copied by one anonymous scribe, who completed his work, according to the last colophon (48b), on 20 Ramażān 1145 (6 March 1733). Two months later, in Şevvāl of the same year, the MS was, according to an inscription on the same page, acquired by İbrāhīm Efendi b. el-Ḥāccī Yūsuf. The ‘title page’ (1a) contains various notes, among them, in pencil, ‘Jazici oglu’ and the price of £42. (1) ff. 1b–32a ʿAcāyibü l-maḫlūḳāt
ﲺﺎﯾﺐ اخملﻠﻮﻗﺎت
An undated copy of a popular cosmography by Yazıcıoġlı Aḥmed Bīcān (d. in or after 870/1465–1466). The title is mentioned on f. 1a, in a heading preceding the text (1b) and in the fifnal sentence (32a); the name of the author is found in f. 1b:3 and in the fifnal sentence (32a). The work is an abbreviated