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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.441)

Cod.Or. 12.441 A miscellany A collection of, mostly, Turkish texts in various hands, late 17th century. The years 1085/1674-5, 1086 (1675-6), and 1091/1680 are found on, respectively, ff. 89b, 103b, and 109a. A gazel is, exceptionally, dated 969/1561-2 (88a), but the year may have been copied along with the poem. A series of aphorisms in Arabic occur in the upper margins of ff. 5b-89b; it ends with the year 1085 (1674-5, on f. 89b). An introductory text in Turkish to these sayings, which are attributed to Shihab ad-DTn as-Suhrawardf (d. 632/1234, cf. GAL I, p. 440), is found on a loose sheet of paper found in the volume; it is equally dated 1085. It begins: ) 5UI jWjjJ •£*jLAl ^ a±JoJ $-» jJj>^> jjjé ‘«dl ... J-«LS j ^JLc. JjI uLiul ... j-ï-JLx. A similar series is found in Cod.Or. 12.425, above. A survey of the names of the lunar months are found on f. 2a. To the monthRebi'ii l-ewel is added slantwise: ‘on ikinci gecesi kandiller yanar gaflet olunmaya’. A gazel by tlahl, headed ‘ta'rif-i Ramazan-i serif occurs on f. 3a. The owners’ inscriptions of Hasan Dervis and Ibrahim Halil are found on the same page. An inscription stating that the late Monla SabbagI el-Bodrumf had been owner of the MS is found on f. 90a. Apart from the Turkish texts, described below, we find Arabic and some Persian ones in (7), f. 110, a prayer in bold vowelled Arabic, accompanied by a marginal gloss in Turkish, in which it is recommended for times of tribulation and attributed to ‘shaykh Ekber’; (8), ff. 110b-112a, an anonymous Arabic qasida of religious content and rhymed in -ji, with a brief postscript; (9), ff. 113a-127a, a collection of Arabic prayers, partly in verses - an Persian gloss is found in the margin of 113a -; (10) ff. 127b-130a, a collection of Persian poems welcoming the lunar months and the main Islamic feasts, preceded by a tamjid in Arabic; (11), f. 130b, a pious text in a mixture of Arabic and Persian; and (14), ff. 139b- 140a, an Persian and an Arabic text fragment in bold calligraphic nesih- (1) ff. 3b-9b Vesiletii n-necatfi mevlüdi n-nebf ‘aleyhi s-salat SiLosJI 4j 1 fc J jJj-a 1^4 oLspJI 41_< mj An undated, abbreviated version of a popular poem in mesnevf rhyme in praise