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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.435, cont., 12.436) «&• [if] J * [J/C] ^ jJ a JL.1 jL Jjl Ends (p. 395): <L«L«j a-iifJ» 4^ul kilaiil ^1 * 4_«b jj if jfi *j>5 if aJj! aUj Catalogue entries: Götz I, 254-6, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 3700 (III, p. 200); Kut 159. Edition: Istanbul 1325. Literature: cf. Rossi, p. 141.

Cod.Or. 12.436 ‘Uyünü l-hidaye ^ u d" iij; - A mid 19th-century copy of a treatise on the Twelve Imams, the fourteen innocents (ma'süm-i pak), and the doctrine of the ehl el-hakk, by the Bektashf shaykh Resmf ‘AIT Baba of Resmo (Rethimnon, Crete). The title and name of the author ‘ er-Resmi [el-Giridt] min bende-i Seyyid 'Ali [Sultan]' is found in a heading preceding the text and that anouncing a conclusion (hatime) on, respectively, ff. lb and 87b. The author also mentions himself in f. 3b:6. The prose of the treatise is interrupted by a few verses. The author, about whom almost nothing is known, probably flourished in the 18th century and also wrote a divan (cf. Gölpmarh I, p. 258). (For another copy of this text, see Cod.Or. 14.637(4), below.) Bound in boards covered in embossed green paper with light brown leather backing; cream paper without watermarks; 90+1 folios; 214x145 mm and 135x90 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; nk‘a; headings, rubrics and lines in red; completed by Ahmed Nesmu, a son of Hiiseyn Baba, on 7 Cemaii l-ahir 1275 (14 November 1858); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 136’ is found on f. la. (The manuscript was bought from Nasrullah in October 1930, according to note in Cod.Or. 12.583.) Begins (lb, after a besmele): • MJ u * birt till 4 lj !>■ j 4 ‘II• ^^J| 4I1 \ »^-ll Ends (89a): f jj tjU* _>■»c**»