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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.372, cont., 12.373)

Ends (26a): I' a .sj 1 Jj ■ ■■ * dJjj ■“ a I l! jjJuIL j^l jj II f |])i» dJ jal jSI jjj jjjlJL >«l a*j jjL.* t dlj^ jSI 4JL> I ÜI|^x«JL >*l 4 nu I j3-Li bill C.fc.aï JyaJ^I aJI 4_Lj I t/.la"u I Colophon (27b): j ^Jj M ... #|j .a ^. I..i ^ j ‘ L ’ L ^ 1 aj >«JI * II a Ajb * i*>I La^jj La^j $*-c. 3 La^j^j >i-fc liii > a hi^j uJujJu I aJIjJ ^ ^ ■*> * ^ V Yo 41*4 I * II 1UJt Literature: V.L. Ménage, ed., Uriel Heyd, Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law (Oxford 1973). Cod.Or. 12.373 Menasikii l-hacc &>JI kiLaalia A mid 18th-century copy of a popular manual for pilgrims by Sinanüddïn Yüsuf b. ‘Abdullah el-Amasï er-RflmT, know as Sinan Efendi (d. 1000/1591-2, cf. Fihris IV, p. 139). The title and the name of the author (‘shaykh Sinan’) are mentioned in a heading preceding the text on f. 2b. The work, which consists of twenty chapters (bab) and was written in 991/1583, is preceded by an introduction (2b- 7b) in which the author, who does not mention his name, informs us that he settled in Mecca and for more than twenty years studied the problems related to the hacc and all its ceremonies which are succinctly discussed in this treatise (see for a more detailed description, Rieu, pp. 14-5). The last chapter, on the visit to the holy tomb at Medina, begins on f. 130a. The work proper, which ends on f. 145a, is followed (after the colophon, on f. 145b) by an appendix with additional advice on prayers and descriptions of the routes between Üsküdar and Mecca and Medina (from f. 147b), and between Mecca and Cairo (from f. 163b), with information on the distance in hours between halting places, which places to visit, where water sources are to be found, and other useful information for the pilgrim. Additional lines on prayer beads and the Light of Muhammad and on the stone in Jerusalem touched by the feet of Gabriel during the mi ‘rac, are found on ff. 165b- 166a. The manual is preceded by a survey of the chapters in black and red (la-b). A few marginal additions. (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 12.375 and 17.120, below.) A piece of brownish paper (approximately 140x100 mm) with the text of a