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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.351, cont., 12.352)

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Catalogue entries: CC0, p. 176; Blochet A.F. 79 (I, pp. 31-2); Fihris 4726 (IV, pp. 164-5); Fliigel 312 (I, pp. 282-3); Götz II, 278; Karatay 1268; Rieu Or. 61 (pp. 80-3); Sohrweide I, 142; Storey III/2, p. 271. Edition: 2 Vols., Istanbul 1274-5 Literature: GOW, pp. 106-8; J.H. Mordtmann - V.L. Ménage, ‘Ferïdün Beg’ in Ef \ Storey III/2, p. 271.

Cod.Or. 12.352 Tarüi-i Lutfï iü An autograph copy of a volume of an official history of the Ottoman Empire by Ahmed Lutff covering the period 1241/1825 to 1293/1876. This copy describes events which are adstructed with quotations from documents (and by no means restricted to developments taking place within the Empire) for the period between 1 $ewdl and the end of ZTl-hicce 1282 (17 February to 15 May 1866, cf. 3b: 10- 1). The period is treated in the tenth volume of the printed edition which was based on manuscripts, partly autographs, preserved in Turkey but written several years later than our copy (cf. the preface to Vol. X, pp. 1-2), which gives a text which does not bear any resemblance to this edition and should perhaps be considered as part of a preliminary study to the Tdrïb. Ahmed Lutff (d. 1323/1907) was official chronicler of the Ottoman dynasty {vak'a-nüvïs) from 1281/1865. Both the title page (la, see plate) and the colophon (37a) expressly