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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.385, cont.)

Catalogue entries: Götz I, 387-8, where other MSS are mentioned; see also: Akbulut 69; Fihris 1898-1902 (II, pp. 95-6); TYTK (Siileymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 219; Yardim 219. (3) ff. 40a-45b An anonymous biography of the author, lavishly illustrated with verses in Turkish, Persian and Arabic, and written after his death; it occurs in other manuscripts of Miimfs collected works (cf. GOD IV, p. 164; Götz I, p. 270). Begins (40a): ... (j-lulj «-a,J 4.«A * L+Jb jiu-j Uj L $1 Jj uu]j Irtü.aa ^ * «.«•»< ... i_>jAJI jjJ ^ j11-» t_3 jjju) 4Jbl tP 4)151 tVtI Ends in a quatrain, the last hemistich of which reads (45b): A>* JJj Juiil i*“»•#« jki- A**£*l3 cP |»~

(4) ff. 45b-47b A collection of thirty-nine traditions (words spoken by the Prophet, hadith) in Arabic, followed by a paraphrase in Turkish four-liners with the rhyme pattern abcb. (A list of the traditions in German is found in GOD IV, pp. 165-6.)

Begins (45b):

Ends (47b):

£Lj £ La, JLax.1 AJ 1 o"i nO » _ I M i~> * a %0II 4 3 LSjLS jl 4jima* aJjl ^133 yLsr* j*j3* l[ij] 3 >?■*"

Catalogue entries: Götz II, 27-8, where other MSS are mentioned; see also TYTK (Siileymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 15.