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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.421, cont., 12.422)

Rebound in boards covered in brown marbled paper, with brown linen back and edges; glazed cream paper without watermarks of varying quality, fine in (1), coarser in (2); (l)+32+(l) folios; 202x140 mm and 150x80 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesifa, occasionally vowelled; headings, rubrics and lines in red (in 1); without dates and the name of a copyist; a seal with the name Hafiz Velr is printed on f. la; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 105’ is found on the same page; a slip of paper with the titles as they occur on the title page and the remark that the MS was acquired from Nasmllah in 1925.

Cod.Or. 12.422 A miscellany (1) ff. lb-34b Rusya devleti canibine verilen ‘ahdname-i hümayün

An undated copy of the Treaty of Kü?ük Kaynarca of 1188/1774, granted by Sultan ‘AbdulhamTd I to Russia. The title, given here, appears in the heading preceding the text on f. lb (cf. plate). In it, the lacking cipher is indicated as ‘mahall-i tugrd'. It consists of a long preamble (lb-5a), 28 articles, and a conclusion (21b-22a). (The title page, f. la, has a title in pencil ‘Rusya ‘ahd- namesi’, probably by a bookseller.) The treaty is followed (22a) by the conco mitant hüküm, seemingly incomplete at the end, addressed to the voyvoda of Wallachia, Alexander [Ipsilanti, in office 1774-82 and 1796-7, d. 1807], dated mid §ewal 1188 (10-9 December 1774) - the treaty altered the legal status of the Principalities, but the letter emphasized the re-establishment of peace and the maintenance of old rights -and (32a) a ni$an-i hümayün addressed to the same, dated 27 Cemdzi l-ahir 1196 (9 June 1782), which confirmed the prince’s privileges upon his [first] dismissal. A few interlinear corrections. The 'ahdn&me begins (lb): ... j>JI 4JSL5 tj- 1111-1 » » I ■'<ivOll-o.* SiCLi J Ends (22a): A>u 3? f-4 I CjS>>■ J &é>3 jl*~« Aii Jj ... jxUli » jjj* ■t*;*' r Jol». 3+jjj I AjJjl