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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.415, cont., 12.416)

of low quality; (l)+35-l-(l) folios; 208x125 nun and 170x78 nun, 21 linos, catchwords; nk‘a, careless in some parts; rubrics, lines and small geometrical figures in red; double borders in yellow and black; a simple headpiece consisting of (parts of) circles in yellow and white with title occurs on f. lb; four drawings in black and red (cf. above); without a date and the name of a copyist, the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 98’ is found on f. la. Begins (lb, after a besmele): JLa ^ <>UJI ijtji*. >bUi J"r **** o jjjl ija.jj <—a*j Ul ... -ajTpxd) ily» Ends (32a): ajilj ui-ai C*>« t jjul cJV J> 4-uJjl $1 jj-J 4J jjLa^J

Cod.Or. 12.416 Edvar yahud Hayatu l-ervah A**' 1 * j'i-*' A, possibly autograph, copy of a handbook on musicology by ‘Kazim kullan’, according to the title page (la), a member of the palace orchestra, Muzika-i hümayün; on the same page the year 1311 (1895-6) is mentioned (see plate). The author [mu'allim] A. Kazim [Uz] (1872-1938) is better known from a dictionary of musical terms, Müsiki istilahati (Istanbul 1310), reprinted in Latin script in 1964 (Musiki istilahati, Ankara 1964) and even translated into Arabic (by Ibrahim ad-Daqüqï, Baghdad 1964 and 1965). The work found in this manuscript was not printed (and is not mentioned by Özege), although it was written and bound in such a way that, at first sight, one gets the impression that the manuscript is actually a printed book, or at least a neat copy prepared for a facsimile print. The text is also arranged as in a modem book, with modem punctuation, paragraphs and footnotes in smaller script. Page numbers, on the other hand, are lacking and there are also incomplete and blank pages as well as other imperfections, and the script is not as regular as printed type. The work is preceded by a preface (mukaddime, 2b-16b) in, on the initial pages, highly florid rhymed prose with excessive praise of the reigning Sultan, ‘AbdulhamTd [II], and his beneficent reign. The author, thereupon, excuses himself for having been so audacious as to compile a ‘small collection’ (mecmu ‘a-