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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.427, cont.)

Edition: Abdülbaki Gölpinarli, ‘Burgazi ve "Fütüvvet-Name"si’, in Iktisat Fakiiltesi Mecmuasi XV (1953-55), pp. 76-153 (in Latin script, based on MS Millet Library, Istanbul, Ali Emiri $eriye 901). Translation: Franz Taeschner, Ziinfte und Bruderschaften im Islam. Texte zur Geschichte der Futuwwa (Zurich & Munich 1979), pp. 319-93. Catalogue entries: Franz Taeschner, ‘Futuwwa-Studien. Die Futuwwabiinde in der Tiirkei und ihre Literatur ’, lslamica 5 (1932), pp. 323-4 (eleven items, including this MS and Or. 12.429 [No. 9, ‘JT’], below). See also Rossi, Vat. Turco 337 (formerly owned by O. Rescher, No. 5 on Taeschner’s list in lslamica 5). Literature: Franz Taeschner, ‘Das Futtuvetname des Jahja b. Halil’, in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (1928) 12, cols. 1065-6. (3) ff. 106b-114a Chapters on Afai Evran (Evren) A mid 17th-century copy of a series of anonymous chapters (fast) on the exploits (mendkib), the affiliation (intisab, 107b), the lineage (nesebname, 111a, consists of a table in four columns), and the miracles (mu'cizdt, 111b) of AJji Evran (Evren), a semi-legendary saint and patron of the tanners’ guild, who flourished in the early part of the 14th century. His tomb-sanctuary is found in Kirjehir. The heading preceding the text on f. 114b reads in full: ‘Fast ft beydn-i menakib-i Sultan Alii Evran rahmat Allah ‘aleyh’. Marginal pencil notes by Taeschner. The chapters are followed on f. 114a by a statement that no letter of the text (surat-i mektüb) of the shaykh, ‘mentioned in the appendix’ - probably identical with the writer of (4), who is mentioned in a separate paragraph of the author’s colophon - had been changed by (the copyist), slave of the Prophet, and kazi at Saray (Sarajevo); this statement was confirmed by the kazi of Saray, ‘Abdulhalim b. Receb (d. 1051/1641, cf. SO 2 1, p. Ill), with his seal which shows the year 1040 (1630-1). Begins (106b): 4J>» i ö}UI 4-JLc -uit ill obi 1 ... jA.cS 4\I LJ>i> ipjl Ends (113b):