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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.382, cont., 12.383)

plate); completed by Ahmed b. ‘All in Ankara in the afternoon of Friday 17 Cemaii l-ewel 964 (18 March 1557); three different owners’ seals in ff. la, lb, 2a (accompanied by a legend with the name of Mehmed known as Cizyedarzade) and 218a; two tailed signatures are found on f. la; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 62’, written by himself, occurs on the same page; a piece of paper with notes on the author, title, colophon, and purchase (from Nasrüllah, Constantinople, Summer 1924 for 16 Lt ‘a 2,25 Goldmark') by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS. Begins (lb, after a besmele, as in Timurta§’s editions): . . U . II ,,11 ^ j *1/| » .... 3 * fj, AiJI A*>»l Ends (217b, as in Timurta§’s editions, p. 264:22): <V0J_)S jljJuc, jLj * r aJil Colophon (218a): j yjl ^ jj a >»H t_jLa 3JI >* 11 oft jj j) t > <—j l".5H I La ij j «' * (jj ILJJI 3 olisVI <il/1 a_>iil aaL yJs ijj j-AJI 3 jjjl U-a JjH* Ó-* ^ J AX*»JI AÏ* \ 4 t Catalogue entries: Flemming 423 and Götz I, 531-5, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1472-5 (II, pp. 1-2); TYTK (Süleymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 265. Editions: Faruk K. Timurta§, §eyhi’nin Husrev ii §irin 'i. Inceleme-metin (Istanbul 1963); by the same, §eyhi ve Husrev ü §irin’i. inceleme-metin (Istanbul 1980; Ananiasz Zajaczkowski, Poemat Iranski öusrev-u-$Trïn w wersji Osmansko- Tureckiej Seyfr (Warsaw 1963 - with facsimile of the Bibliothèque Nationale MS A.F. 322.) Literature: cf. Flemming, pp. 325-6 and the introductory chapters to the editions.

Cod.Or. 12.383 Gül§en-i ‘afk 3-^ An undated copy of an allegorical poem in mesnevC rhyme on mystic love by Ke?ecizade Mehmed ‘izzet Molla Efendi (d. 1245/1829). The title and name of