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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.360, cont.)

22b (Nihalï to Hüda’ï), 26a-26b (Hüda’ï to Yahya Beg). Our copy lacks a conclusion with dedication and year of completion found in most manuscripts. Distichs by NevT, Usülï, Haletï, AM, öayalï, Camï, Bakï, Derüm, Kurbi, Sun‘ï-yi Gelibolï, Sa‘ï are found on f. 50a; other notes, among these on Veysï, have been erased. Verses, a recipe with a list of ingredients, a calculation, an address with the name Re’ïf Efendi at the zOviye of al-Hacc Mehmed Efendi in the ‘Tabak Yünus (spelt ja*»)’ quarter of Istanbul, and a note on three days of ‘illumination’ which took place in Edime upon the news of the conquest of Tabriz, dated 18 Zll-hicce 1137 (28 August 1725; cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji, IV, p. 15), are found in f. 50b. Bound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with black leather backing and edges; glazed white paper without watermarks; 1+50 folios; 194x141 mm, without margins apart from two triangular spaces at the left and right comers of each page; 26 lines, varying, written diagonally (see plate); edges have been trimmed, causing loss to the text; ta'lik; many catchwords are lacking; headings, rubrics Arabic quotations and dots in red; without date and the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 37’ by the owner himself occurs on the first unnumbered page, recto.

Begins (la): .. aSjJj-» oam Ji' ^ a.1 j>- J.» jjjil aJU '**>* 45 ^ f ... ^ J iV< * uii Ends (49b): ^3X01 yjöj*. a-SjjjL» üLULa/ ajLjt J3I ... yjüaJ

Catalogue entries: Götz II, 311-2, and Sohrweide H, 153, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 2760-1 (II, p. 302).

Literature: Gönül Alpay Tekin in IA and Ef \ Niki Gamm, ‘RiyazT’s Tez/dre as a Source of Information on Ottoman Poets’, in JAOS 99.4 (1979), pp. 643-52.