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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.353, cont., 12.354)

margins up until f. 60; gold margins within black lines, gold dots and leaf illumination in ff. lb-2a; a magnificent headpiece with floral motifs in gold, green, purple, pink and yellow on f. la (see plate); an owner’s inscription of the author with the year 1280 (1863-4) is found on f. la (cf. quotation, below); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 29’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la. Owner’s inscription (la): I.-, v , ^ Lx-l. JjS JL*. .-ilaJ .LSI ^ Begins (lb): jLSl Aj CiLSI j a-iili 9 liliojLi JJa. aJla -< + t jiil aJL«»j .«-»>■ t_*jJjl CjjLa, • •• aJjI J_i a i jju i—i9 s * 1 jlj Ends (136b, as in the printed edition IV, p. 172:20-3): a OjL*J (j’iljl 1"' a ... jdL^cxa y^Liia Al~< oj 5 >■ a-.Is ... j U . . », jliïixLa.* AijLa^ j.» aj>Sia Aa*ijL>oi ^ ^lli-aala^a^j Ai-a ^1 ja^kalal ajjuUij-ii# Aabal^Lc.1 Colophon {ibidem): Jl*-i >dtt f yüJI J ,yL*JI Ó-* aLuia La Jh ^ikl a^l j_-s-.ll a^La. U^. \ V A* Ala

Cod.Or.12.354 Menakib-i hulefd’-i ra§idtn h *‘- 1 - y«Lu A mid 17th-century copy of, what seems to be an abbreviated version of a history of the first four orthodox Caliphs, by shaykh §emsiiddfn Ahmed es-Sivasf (d. 1006/1597-8). The title is mentioned on the title page (la), but the work is better known as ‘Mendkib-i gehdryür-i güzfn’; the author’s name is found in f. lb:9-10. The work consists of a brief introduction (lb) and four chapters {bab) on respectively, Abü Bakr (lb), ‘Umar (6b), ‘Uthman (13a) and ‘All (16a). A few marginal additions. (For a much more elaborate version of the text, see Cod.Or. 14.410, below.) An owner added a list of book titles (seven items, la) and a lengthy description of the related movements of the sun, moon, planets and stars on a number of consecutive weekdays (24b-25a) in crude $ikeste. Bound in boards covered in pink paper decorated with black and blue flowers