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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.411, cont.)

amply rewarded when the commanders, aghas, of the six divisions (bölük) were invited to the Old Palace at Istanbul (147a-152b). The respect then shown became kanün (152b-154a). A year later, Gedik Ahmed was appointed ihtisab agasi by the sultan (154a-155a). Campaigns used to be preceded by a grand review of the troops (155a-157b). Such a review should actually be held every month and on special occasions such as Ramadan, and it should be honoured by the presence of the grand vizier. The first secretary of the corps, ba$ yazici, should inform the odas of this on the preceding Friday (160b-163b). The final part of the text, from f. 164a, consists of a prayer for the gazis, past and present, the Ottoman sultans in the first place, from ‘Osman up to ibrahlm (ruled 1049/1640-1058/1648); a table showing the gifts of sugar candy (‘akide $ekeri) distributed to the grand vizier and members of the Janissary Corps on review days, with amounts in dirhem (165a-166a, see plate); a table showing the amounts of hay (counted in cart loads) to be distributed to Janissary officers, as laid down in 1060/1650 in a defter by the silihdar-i $ehriyariKen‘an Aga [d. after 1075/1664-5, SO 2 III, pp. 884-5] (166a-166b), followed by a statement on the rules concerning the maintenance of the meadow {gayir) belonging to the agha at the Baba Nakka§ Quarter (166b-167a); a table of the annual gifts (cloaks and textile) from the sultan to the aghas of the stirrup (167a-b); a table showing the gifts (piyke$: ivory, silver stirrups and knobs, cloaks and textile) offered by aghas of the various ocaks to the newly appointed agha of janissaries (167b-168b). A few marginal additions and annotations in pencil; f. 129a has remained blank. Rebound in boards with reddish-brown linen back and edges; glazed cream paper (watermark: clover and letters b V, cf. Heawood 3100); (1) + 158+(1) folios with original Oriental foliation 11-168 in red; 195x115 mm and 139x68 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesihr, headings, rubrics, lines and dots in red; parts of headings and rubrics occasionally in green; dots occasionally in gold; gold borders within black lines; without a date and the name of a copyist; remnants of seal impressions on ff. 1 lb-12a; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 92’ is found on f. 11a. Begins (11a): '«•■ ■•'■K jJLsJI <tL^Ldiiou ajjjl jl^i i J>4 aJj>ÜS>I» ü-jT Ai Ta£.I Lfc.1 cr+fZ* aUó^*' ... l-jjJjI JJaTj t)i>a-a Cj-jU-oi Jai- ... ij-^ A Ends (168b): dhOJ >»3l jiij it j (Jj A- 3 j •>4la!5 aLjj3 ajjjl