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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.441, cont.)

(3) ff. 63a-84b A collection of ilahfs The collection, undated and written in various hands, contains hymns by Hüdayï (63a, 64b, 69b, 74b, 76b, 80b, 81a, 82b, 84b), Safï (63b), Yünus (64a, 69a-b), Rahmï (65a), Ïlahï (66b), E§refogli Rünu (d. 874/1469) (67a), Mehmed §ah (67a- b); Gafürï (70a); Lutfï (70b); Gam (75a); Dervï§ (77b, 83a); Kulogli (78a); Seyfci (78b); Seyyid (80a); and Talib (81b). (4) ff. 85a-90a A miscellany Among the texts in various hands, we find: prayer prescriptions for the month of Ramazan, with the texts of prayers in vowelled Arabic (85a); a sermon (hutbe) in vowelled Arabic with instructions in Turkish (85b-89a); a gazel by Latïfï, dated 969/1561-2 (88a); fragments of pious phrases in Arabic in bold calligraphic süliis (88a, 89b); an aphorism on the virtue of patience (89b); an ebced table indicating the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet in red (90a). (5) ff. 90b-103b [Kitab-i] Falname <l*ULs Acopy, dated 1086(1675-6), ofabrief, anonymous, manual onbibliomancy. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. 90b. The omens are to be drawn, as the introduction (90b) explains, from combinations of the four letters dif, ba, am, and dal, written on the four sides of a piece of wood. The main text describes the prognostic value of the possible combinations of three letters, from elif elifelif to ba ba elif. An extensive marginal addition occurs on f. 97b. Begins (90b): aJ$j =] Oe-" 40 ** 45 ->■»* ** 0 jS i ... <-» Aüü _>* i • ajL *-4>>- j>» [_• Jl U_. ,MI j*tl III a-ial jJii 4i aJu 4i>».a5Tajj *4Lt.jï ... 0>aJil cajLiu ^aÜ L5L*i J4 *» ••• Ends (103b):