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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.422, cont., 12.423)

Begins (38b, after a besmele): J iLc. j jj» Cj LJi 3 Xu Ul ... |jj «II l II I—I j 4iJ A*»JI a jl <ta>j L>- tjl «_i 111) (jUaJLu jj (jL»> A._« 1 m (jLtoJLu Cj j -lixJLaS 5 ... I a ilnl I»

Ends (59b-60a): i_ l_> I jjjjü 3 3^>- jixjj 3 a_i Ij I t~ 1 <il31 ^ j-al al/l <0 jjjl t2J$jl I* 5 a jjj* >~i>.l<r»«

Bound in dark brown leather with flap; glazed cream paper (watermark of a star flanked by letters C and D); 60 folios; 221x142 mm and 132x73 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; (1) nesta'lik and (2) calligraphic, vowelled nesih; headings, rubrics and borders in red; without dates and the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 106’ is found on f. la; a slip of paper with the titles as they occur on the title page, with explanations in German, a date, and the remark that the MS was acquired from Nasrüllah in 1925.

Cod.Or. 12.423 A miscellany A notebook filled with various annotations and texts in various hands, late 17th to early 18th century. It was probably owned by an official who worked for one of the küzVaskers' offices in Istanbul, possibly a kassam, charged with dividing up of the estates of deceased members of the military class in the provinces, for which a fee, the resm-i kismet, was received from the heirs and which was entered in the kdzï'askers' account (see below, cf. Cengiz Orhonlu, ‘Kassam’, in Ef). The largest part of the notebook is filled with administrative notes found in, mostly, tables of varying format and often written in a barely legible, small to miniscule and undotted §ikeste: la-3a (names, amounts [of money], dates of the year 1103/1691-2, various Ottoman place names, systematically divided into oblong fasls for each place on lb-2a); 4b-16b (a survey of the kazfs who are entrusted with collecting the ‘kismet-i ‘askenye’ for each district, from Aydin to ‘Ala’ïye (Alanya), year 1103-4 (1691-3); a typical entry (for inegöl, 4b) reads: ‘ümür-i kismet-i ‘askenyeyi fahru l-kuzdt Mustafü Efendi ’ye sipüri§ olunmufdur