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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.376, cont., 12.377)

(see plate); completed by Hüseyn el-Vehbf el-Evanl, a pupil of Hafiz Ibrahim ez- Zühdï, on 15 Cermet l-ewel 1258 (24 June 1842); ownership inscriptions of el- Hacc Mehmed Ragib Beg, kuyuci ba$i of the Imperial Stirrup, on f. 55a; seals by the same are found on ff. la and 57a; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 53’, written by the owner, is found on f. la; a piece of paper with notes on the title, possible author, colophon and purchase (from Nasrullah, Constantinople, Summer 1924) by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS. Begins (lb): ÓjXL» 3 jdLe» 4SjA*jV 3 Af'i 43li u- 4 ** >*■ 3 £»■ ^3* ... a Ajl tiljlAÏ i3 jj j-o j( «I 3 aJjl (34^ j aJjl 4 m «5 Ends (55a): w i_Jo j-ai *o (j I 3 i—3 ^ jl^La <^1 jJ u-*’- 3 0 ^ i3 "' <*■* • • • .**.*" j iy '■ I ^ I A -~-j ' x j I f ^4üLLuft 4jbl jLüf L I 3 til 3 Literature: see Jan Schmidt, ‘Ottoman Hacc Manuals and the John Rylands Library MS Turkish 88’, in Culture: Unity and Diversity. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 12-14 July 1994 (University of Manchester), pp. 488-500.

Cod.Or. 12.377 Menasik-i hacc-i §ertf £». ciL*/L-o A mid 18th-century copy of an anonymous manual for pilgrims. The title, which is not mentioned in die text, is written in pencil on f. lb by, probably, a bookseller. After an introduction (2b-3b), in which the author, who does not mention his name, points out the desirability of a Turkish book on pilgrimage ceremonies (mendsik), there are chapters on duties and obligations (numbered in red), ritual consecration (ihram, 9a), ceremonies at the Kaaba (15a), the departure from Mecca and ceremonies at Mount ‘Arafat and other places (23a), Medina (38a), and a section on the departure from Medina (45b). A few marginal glosses and indications of content. (For another copy of the same work, see Cod.Or. 12.379, below.) Bound in boards with dark brown leather backing and edges; glazed cream paper; 48 folios; 159x102 mm and 105x54 mm; 11 lines; without catchwords;