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This volume contains the following seven texts in both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish:. (I) ff 2v-5v : A brief tract without the author's name provided, on the legal rules of prayer and ablutions;. (II) ff 3r-4v (margins) : Erbain hadis, forty Aḥādīth relating to prayer, compiled by İmad İbn-i Ebu Yezidü'd-Devani, with Ottoman Turkish comments. The text breaks off at the 22nd ḥadīth;. (III) ff 5r-7r (margins) : Menazilu'l-Arifin by Şemseddin Sivasi;. (IV) ff 6v-9v : Bayyinat ghalat al-ḥāmil (بينة غلط الحامل), a text on the various errors and corruptions that have crept into the use of Arabic texts. The work is incomplete, ending at the word التواُمان, and contains the title on the first page, alongside the name of the author, given as Kemalpaşazade;. (V) ff 8v-10v (margins) : Al-Manhaj al-ḥanīf fī maᶜná ismihi al-laṭīf (المنهج الحنيف في معنى اسمه اللطيف), a tract on the benefit of repeating the name of good '''' during prayer, as well as the meaning of this particular name, imperfect at the end;. (VI) ff 10v-31v : Kanun-i Cedid, or the new code, by Müftü Ebusuud. This copy contains several later additions, one of which is dated 1014 AH (1605-05 CE). Itis stated in the subscription that it has been transcribed from the original manuscript and is fuller in most places than in other copies of the same work;. (VII) ff 32v-41r : Legal opinions of the same Müftü under the heading Maruzat Ebusuud Efendi rahamahi Allah. This manuscript was copied between 1229 and 1232 (1814-18 CE) (ff 32r, 41r) by Mehmet et-Tusivi.

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Acquired by the British Museum from Sir Claudius Rich.

For the Arabic texts, see Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur II, p. 384. For the Ottoman Turkish texts, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 248.

Other copies of the Menaziu'l-Arifin can be found at Add MS 7835 and Or 12179 text IV. For more information about this text, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 18; SO III, p. 165; Flügel, Vienna Catalogue III, pp. 307-08; Haj. Khal III, p. 118. Haj. Khal. VI, p. 131 gives 1006 AH (1597-98 CE) as the date of composition of the Menazilü'l-arifin, and names the author as Abdülmecit İbn-i Muharrem, Şemseddin's nephew, who died in 1049 AH (1639-40 CE). Other copies of the Kanun-i Cedid can be found at Or 13508 and Add MS 7834 text IV.