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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.583, cont.)

Stambuler Ausgabe vonEvlijaTschelebis Reisewerk’, inDerIslam 18 (1929), pp. 299-310, 310.] 10. 20 January 1930, at the Türkiyat Enstitüsü. A folded sheet of paper, one page. Sender thanks Taeschner for the copy of his edition of [Ibn Fadl Allah al- ‘Umarf’s] Masalik al-absar \fi mamalik al-amsar, Leipzig 1929] and his article in Der Islam (cf. above). He was most impressed. It proved to be impossible to have the ninth and tenth volumes of Evliya Qelebi printed there (in Turkey) and wondered whether that could be done in Germany. Sender was ready to send handwritten copies of the five MSS preserved there. [The ninth and tenth volumes were eventually edited in Latin script by the Turkish Ministry of Culture in 1935 and 1938.] He asked for more copies of Masalik and two of the article on Evliya Qelebi. Fu’ad Köprülüzade also wanted a copy. 11. 21 August 1931. A folded sheet of paper, one page. The copying of HatifFs kaside took sender a long time. To his regret there had been an ink problem. Taeschner had written to [the Orientalist Paul] Wittek [1894-1978] that the ink should be black and red. However after the publication of the hurüfat kanam, it was impossible to find black ink and pens in Istanbul. The ink sent by Wittek from Europe tended to congeal. As regards the pedigree ($ecere), sender was not able to draw it. There also were mistakes in the original. He had received Taeschner’s letter the previous day. Taeschner had asked him to copy the chapter on kagidcis from the first volume of Evliya Celebi[’s Seyahatname]. (In pencil on the back:) Sender received 10 Lira from Wittek and asked Taeschner to pay back the money for him. 12. 24 August 1931. A folded sheet of paper, half a page, with postscript in pencil. Sender had received Taeschner’s letter on the asnaf-i kagidciyan. He went to a number of Istanbul libraries and noted the numbers and would send him data on ahis in Ibn BIbIfs chronicle]. (The same letter contains, half a page:) 13. A letter from M[u‘allim] Cevdet Bey. Sender praises Rifat Bey as a good scholar and informs Taeschner that he intended to publish something on the ahis in French; he would send him a copy. (Rifat Bey adds in a postscript that Cevdet Bey was a friend of Taeschner’s whom he had introduced to him once in the Aya Sofya Library.) 14. 9 May 1932. A folded sheet of paper, one page. Sender informed Taeschner that he had copied a part of the two works he had asked for, but that he had not been able to come forward with the data on ahis in Ibn Bïbï. He was obliged to read through the whole work for that, but he was only able to stay for fifteen to twenty days. (See plate)