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be documented, nor is the author or his work mentioned in the usual reference works, except in the literature section of Wright’s article. Bound in boards covered in gold-embossed red silk with a tugra of Sultan ‘Abdulhanud II (front-cover) and an oval surrounding a cresent and star (back- cover); a blue silk ribbon is attached to the spine; slightly glossy white to cream paper; gold edges; (l)+3+93 + l+(l) folios; 201x152 mm and 150x95 mm, varying; 16 lines, varying; without catchwords; elegant nk‘a\ dated 1311/1895-6 (la) without the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 99’ is found on the third flyleaf, recto. Begins (2b): ■» s ajLilS lP a.^léu il ... » ■ - J.4.,.u .sL* J-& LL jj Ends (93a): jU.1 ,4JL1.sL»Jl .1^» .yJbLSjJ IaA-Jr»j. ft .4jfct£j.» ... lJjJi .I jl a AJb LSj

Literature: O. Wright, ‘Müsïkï’ in Ef; ‘Uz’, in Yilmaz Öztuna, Büyiik Türk Müsikisi Ansiklopedisi II (Ankara 1990), pp. 463-5.

Cod.Or. 12.417 Kavs-name A mid 17th-century copy of a treatise on bowmanship by Mehmed b. Yünus ed- Dervazf. The title is found on the title page (la), to which is added ‘ok yaya beyan eder'\ the author, about whom nothing seems to be known (cf. Hein’s study, Der Islam 14, p. 309), is mentioned in f. lb:3-4. Only two other manuscript copies, preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Uri 56), and the Berlin State Library (Ms. orient. 8°. 304), are documented. The work is preceded by a brief introduction (lb-2a) in which the author explains that he was urged by friends to write a book in Turkish on the science of archery, hitherto only touched upon by Arab and Persian masters such as Ustad Salah ad-Dïn al-Qawwas at-Tüsï and Ustad Tursün. He intends to treat ‘the questions underlying this type of warfare’ (ol gaza altinufi mes ’eleleri') on the basis of texts found in the Koran and the traditions {kadis). The treatise, particularly in the first few sections (bab), lar-