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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.429, cont., 12.430)

Evran (Evren, cf. under 4, above). The title is found in a heading preceding the work on f. 134a. The work is followed by a fetva on the question whether it is legitimate for an ahi to protest about the words of a yigitba§i, written slantwise in a different hand (139a). Begins (134a, after a besmele): 3 jlj j uuiVI j Ji* ijuLutl j^ v ' s LJs a» ... MJJii l»*-** 1 J 5 -*- 3 z 3J > «.■ »3 ■■■ Ends (139a): j *> iu «2 >. ^ a At a >. jaISj L>- >1 j 3 ^ oLoI 3 jLs»l J31 ... jJ o AIiLj a I* hi a 3-) 3^-3 Jjl

♦ ♦♦ The manuscript is bound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper, with a reddish brown leather back and edges; glazed white and light brown paper (cf. above); the title of (1) is written on the bottom edge; (1)+1 + 139+28+(l) folios; 193x145 mm and 130x85 mm, varying; 13 and (7) 14 irregular lines; catchwords, partly lost by trimming; (1,2), f. 64b ta'lfk, (3-6) vowelled nesih, (7) irregular vowelled nesih\ without a date and the name of a copyist; see also above. The inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 123/ Aug. 1930 erworben von G. Jacob' is found on the first original flyleaf, verso.

Cod.Or. 12.430 Mecmü ‘atu t-tevdrfhi l-Mevlevfye ju jl^JI ix. A late 19th-century copy of a rare work on the history of the Mevlevf order of dervishes, from the days of the Prophet in Mecca to the birth of Kudretiillah Dede, son of the author, in 1203 (1788-9) by Seyyid-i sahih Ahmed Dede, who flourished during the second half of the 18th century (he wrote that he was 46 years old in 1200 (1785-6) when he moved from Kayseri to Istanbul, cf. f. 206b); according to ‘OM, he was affibaji of the mevlevihane at Yenikapi (cf. 'OM III, p. 198). The history consists mostly of biographies of shaykhs of the order; the book proper is said (in a marginal note, f. 74a) to begin with the year 616(1219) and the death of the Rüm Seljuq Sultan ‘izzuddfn Kayka’üs at Konya. According to a note on the title page (2a), which also contains the title and name of the