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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.388, cont., 12.389)

tafa [III], dated 1171/1757 (20b-21a); a petition (‘ari-i hal) in mesnevi rhyme (21a-b); and 39 chronograms dated between 1169/1755-6 and 1192/1778 (22a- 35a). (For another copy, see Cod.Or. 14.591, below.) Rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with dark red linen backing and edges; glazed cream paper with only partly visible watermarks; (l)+35+(l) folios; 217x135 mm and 170x85 mm, varying; 19 lines; catchwords; calligraphic ta'lik; headings, rubrics, numbers and lines in red; elaborate borders in gold within red and black, occasionally only within black lines (they are lacking in f. 35b); a fine headpiece with floral motifs in gold, orange, red, green and white in f. lb (see plate); without date and name of copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 69’, written by himself, occurs on f. la; a piece of paper with notes on the author, title, illumination and purchase (from Nasrüllah, Constantinople, Summer 1924) by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS. Begins (lb, as in the printed edition, II, p. 2): lJJVI kJij» «.skïil <djl £ j-ui ^1 * 15 hi j-i a jIjJj aLI * \, ^1 Ends (35b, not in the printed edition) ... i—ijj-i jajlj 4l«aKJ-« 3 <-*£>»- * QJjLi aJjI Lt J ajjj \ \ 5V ¥>• a a»I Ajj-oi * i jjS ^Aiil uu>di Catalogue entries: Sohrweide I, 265ii, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1866-70 (II, pp. 88-9); Schmidt 127(1); TYTK (Amtkebir) 120. Edition: Istanbul 1286. Literature: HOP IV, pp. 150-9; Ali Canib Yöntem in IA; Fahir Iz in £7 2 . Cod.Or.

12.389 Oivan An undated copy of a collection of poems by the grand vizier and poet, Ragib Mehmed Pa§a, who used the pen-name of Ragib (d. 1176/1763). It consists of a kasïde in praise of Ahmed Pa$a, vüli of Baghdad (lb-3b); six chronograms of