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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.409, cont., 12.410)

preambles (dïbüce) composed by the compiler (from f. 171b). Rebound in boards with a gold-embossed, red leather back with the printed title ‘Mün§e’at-i Kant Efendi’; glazed white paper with slight worm damage; (1)+179+(1) folios; 165x115 mm and 125x71 mm; 19 lines; catchwords; small nesih\ headings and rubrics in red; gold borders within black lines; a coarse headpiece with floral motifs in gold, pink, orange, red and blue on f. lb; completed on 12 Cemdgl-ewel 1129 (= 1229?, 2 May 1814); without the name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription of Franz Taeschner (‘Ms. Nr. 90’) occurs on f. la. Heading (lb): jit jjI >c.- (jj L5 ujl> jl Begins {ibidem)-. jji> jli J S ^ I. .r~> o jLj A I c ^LtdU gj *■ II Ifni... jh «I Lj 1 III Ï jlpl Jjti I jj J ... ^ n j Ajljjj ... Ends (179a): Óe-*1 I Ji ‘‘‘5 j gii d,i f, b 4jM^êÜLe * dj LS jjjjJI jl Ojljl j ... Colophon {ibidem): \ m L>-i Y ^ Catalogue entries: Götz II, 282, Sohrweide I, 159-62 and Sohrweide II, 149, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 48489 (IV, p. 169); Sarajevo 2953-4; Schmidt 47; TYTK (Antalya) 2061.

Cod.Or. 12.410 A collection of letters and verses

The letters, or parts of them, were, in view of their content, probably copied by an Ottoman official who worked at the Porte in Istanbul, possibly the clerk who read them and had to answer them for the grand vizier or the latter’s ketfiuda. (Similar collections in the same handwriting are found in Codices Or. 12.359, above, and 12.412, below.) His name does not seem to be mentioned, although an abstract signature, more of a flourish, perhaps reading ‘Mustafa’, is found