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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.432, cont.)

papers and the margins contain annotations, partly lost by trimming, by an owner in an ugly fikeste hand; apart from brief remarks on the contents and a series of succinct fetvas and legal problems related to the same, we find: an ebced table, indicating the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet, followed by a digression on the magical powers of the letter kaf and a few lines in Arabic quoting a hadith (la); a prescription for invigorating the limbs by using rhubarb (ibidem)-, a prescription to cure earache and a fragment of a petition (2a, margin); two prayer prescriptions and a fragment of a legal problem in Arabic (3a, margin); a prayer prescription to drive away genies and fairies (13a, margin); a prescription agains syphilis (frengi, 39b, margin); three fetvas concerning feudal administration (81b, margin); a prayer prescription (243a, margin); an administra tive note, with calculations in akge, dated Rebi'U l-ewel 995 (February-March 1587, 243b). The MS contains a postcard from J.H. M[ordtmann, 1852-1932] in Berlin, sent on 12 March 1931, to Taeschner, Hotel Continental, Jerusalem, in which he discusses the identity of the manuscript and refers to ‘OM I, p. 340 (= 304, corrected in pencil by Taeschner) (see plate). Rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper, with a red cloth backing and edges; thick glazed white paper; (l)+243+(l) folios; 260x175 mm and 185x105 mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; calligraphic vowelled nesih\ headings in bold sülüs in black and red; without a date; copied by Mehmed b. Selïm Höca; the owner, according to the colophon on f. 243b, was Süleyman FakI; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 128 (erw. 1931 in Kairo aus der Bibl. Nüreddin Mustafa Pascha)' is found on f. la (cf. under Cod.Or. 12.431). Begins (lb, after a besmele, see plate): (J** 3^ j ,3 A 1^ 1)1 ^ hi* (j—iJ I * iji 3' ^ -sN ili< 4J4III I ,Jjl Verses with the author’s name and years of composition(3a:2-4): Ó53-? - U 1 «*»*'» dJjiuz 3J<La>o * J$l 31 ^JLê. 3I I ,ji-aJ$l -.<11 ■ »*>j 4jS a hi 5 1 mj qjl LSI jujlj CajjHjfe Ends (243b): l»5LuJI 3 I jJL L» 4.« * a 1—4J aJLS j 1 * Cwj d A i_j1_LSJ! dt-AJ Colophon (ibidem): 4JjLc 2 t 1 <lj I 1II L—J 1",5 1) A * ^ a 3 AdJdf ^ . J ■ a 'a II d K tjj ' ÏÏI