280

THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.425, cont.)

Sinanzade); a Persian gazel by JamT (21a); a letter in Arabic from Mu'awiya to ‘All (21b-22a); a story on prayers, based on the Mu'addil as-sal&t by Birgili Mehmed Efendi (22b); a miifred in Arabic (in bold script, 23a); a distich (23b); a riddle (two hemistichs, 24a); four lines in bold script, probably a calligraphic exercise (29a); two lines, partly faded (30b); a prayer prescription (32a); an anecdote on a man who had maltreated his wife; a story about Mflsa and a fish (33b); an Arabic text (tafsir) on the name of God (34b-35a). Of more substantial format is: ff. 35b-50b Risale-i irade-i cüz’ïye j An early 19th-century copy of a treatise on the restricted voluntary powers of men by Mehmed b. Mustafa el-Akkermanl (d. 1174/1760-1). The work consists of an introduction (35b) and eight chapters (fasI). The copy was completed by ‘All b. Hiiseyn, nicknamed Cabi, on 8 ZXl-ka'de 1214 (3 April 1800). Interlinear and marginal corrections and additions; marginal glosses and indications of content. A Persian poem (four distichs) occurs in the margin of f. 42b. Four lines in bold nesih and headed 'kit'a' are found on f. 46a. (For another copy of the same text, see Cod.Or. 17.124, below.) Begins (35b, after a besmele): »■ r- aS aJjl aj5«■> jlijj ... |*.M iiiII 3 aII j aJI i-jj*V aoJI jLuJ a^liLj auija» Oiljl 3 jL-c. JLail ^5 jjjl il>a ^iLa^iï^l •.. ^5 o jL> aH .a j jj aLI jS Ends (50b): ■h I.-w .*KI U. .?■ aJjl oJlc-Ls J$l aAjjU (>r ^ all .aa 4^3 »ajljl al>j aib Aa»ILi ö^al ó-ü Colophon (ibidem): j .* II a nil! j lM i>*tj-ll 4*aS$5 3 ai/l ö3-*-? <— uuUI j_- & ylt J.I'<»)l til 3 1-kJI 3 teZlU 3 j-iut JJjl AXmJ

Catalogue entries: Sohrweide I, 37, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Kut 70; TYTK (Giresun) 198. Editions: Istanbul 1264, 1283, 1301 (cf. Özege 16930)