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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.434, cont., 12.435)

■ • *-^-1 p J ■ I c ^|| A4>j * ^jii 4 I <1 > LJI *>.^ The MS has been rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with dark red linen back and edges; modem cream paper without watermarks; (2)+3 + 107+6+(2) pages; original pagination 1-99; 230x175 mm and (1) 180x105 mm, varying, (2) 170x10 mm, varying; 19 lines; catchwords; elegant nk‘a\ headings and rubrics in red; without a date and the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 134’ is found on the first original flyleaf, recto.

Cod.Or. 12.435 Fazilet-name An undated copy of a long poem of 7360 distichs (cf. p. 395:4) in mesnevf rhyme on the virtues (faztlet) of ‘All and his family by Hafizogh Dervl§ Mehmed who used the pen-name of YernTnl. The work was written in 925/1519 (cf. p. 395:2). The title is found in a heading preceding the text and in p. 393:17; the name of the author and the fact that his father, apfr, was ‘a boy from Samarkand’, are mentioned in p. 393:9-11; the mahlas of the poet occurs in p. 2:7. A few marginal corrections and additions. The work is preceded by an index on two folios of different paper, clearly added to the manuscript later. The following (unnumbered) ‘title page’ contains an owner’s inscription of shayh Veil, living in the foundation (vakf) of Haccf Bekta§ (Velt sakin-i meydan-i vakf-i hazret-i hunkar Haccf Bekta$). Rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with dark red linen back and edges; modem white paper without watermarks; (2)+4+2+396+(2) pages; original pagination; 248x167 mm and 218x113 mm; 19 lines; catchwords; irregular vowelled nesih; headings and Arabic quotations in red; double black and red borders; a simple headpiece, consisting of a semicircle in triple black and red lines, precedes the text; without a date and the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 135’ is found on the first flyleaf, recto. (The manuscript was bought from Nasrullah in October 1930, according to note in Cod.Or. 12.583.) Begins (unnumbered page preceding p. 1, after a besmele):