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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.389, cont.)

varying length, dated between 1148/1735-6 and 1172/1758-9 (3b-6b); 150 gazels arranged in divan sequence (7b-48a); five tahmiszs, partly in Persian, on gazels by §evket, NabI and Sa’ib (48b-51a); mukatta'at (seven items, partly in Persian, 51b-52a); miifredat (four items, 52a - another 42 are found on f. la and in the margins of ff. 46b-52b - a part of these are in Persian). Another five beyts are found on the inner front- and back-boards; a pious text, incomplete, with a prayer and onomantic-prognostic elements is found on f. 52b. Bound in brown leather with gold and red tooled insertions in Oriental style; fine glazed cream paper without watermarks; (l)+53+(l) folios; 224x143 mm and 149x76 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic siiliis; headings and rubrics in red; gold borders within black lines; a headpiece with floral motifs in gold, red, pink, blue, orange and black on f. lb; an owner’s inscription, partly erased, with the legend ‘müdir-i harir-i asitane-i ‘aliye’ with the year 54 is found on the first flyleaf, recto; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 70’, in his own handwriting, occurs on f. la; a separate piece of paper, found between the front board and the first flyleaf, contains a note by the same on the title [of the first kaside] and purchase of the manuscript (Constantinople, Summer 1924, from Nasmllah). Begins (lb, as in the Bülaq edition, p. 2): .sTjdu c 9 LiL * a in ^ ."' j ... -w t I j) jUa jj .*i S '* j^Jjl * V a aq J j •>. ■ u 4 ">. > I Lr*k« Ends (52a): ÜL j *< Ij -3 jLtluf c-jMj ■,» j^jl * lL jj iii *t a 4411 j J* * 41« Catalogue entries: Götz I, 421-3, Sohrweide I, 247 and Sohrweide II, 218, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1770-7 (II, pp. 67-8); Schmidt 18(2), 96; Yardim 3615. Editions: Bülaq 1252; Istanbul 1276. Literature: cf. Götz I, p. 299; F. Babinger in El; Bekir Sitkt Baykal in IA; Hüseyn Yorulmaz, ‘§air devlet adami Koca Ragib Pa§a’, in Tarih ve Toplum 13.76 (1990), pp. 226-34.