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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.386, cont.)

work is said to have been completed in $a ‘b&n 965 (May-June 1558) - and a prayer (du ‘a-i kuwet). A few marginal additions; crude marginal scribblings, probably talismanic signs, on f. 85a. Rebound in brown leather; the original back and front cover in black leather with gold, red and black tooled insets in Oriental style, have been preserved; thick glazed cream paper without watermarks, stained and tattered in places; parts of the original paper have been patched up or replaced by strips of new paper, pausing a loss of text in some places; (l)+99+(l) folios; 197x140 mm and 147x95 mm; 13 lines; catchwords; vowelled calligraphic nesih; headings, rubrics, Arabic quotations and double borders in red; completed by the author in §a‘ban 965 (cf. above); without name of author or copyist; a crude (and only partly readable) owner’s inscription of the halife Mehmed Emm Efendi dated year 1195 (1780-1) with a seal containing the same year; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 66’, written by himself, occurs on f. la.

Begins (lb, after a besmele): aju Ul ... a. -> IIUH a*»JI J$l E.Lc.1 JaaSjj fJLt A* ^ Jl> '*‘«■»>*»’

Ends (98b-99a): Lr* A

Colophon and final prayer (99a): ( jJ u4 3J| jjj • 4ijjt p Irut «II ijl 11 A j4 VI tj9 *} ' h ** ^tyi jLSjjj aJLs jLSb (jAij aJlA t>»A» ^5LuJI j a v. .fi* ... ÜA^ 1 iA-*fA U.A [?] y*y> OA*-i* iA-^A 1 hi ~j HI cLtyij U. a I jjljb amIa LAjI ÜAuL>r Jjl 03-^4** ö-ua^-IjJI • y y >*-£■ I »—»j ■■■ *"I». 1 ■“'»

Catalogue entries: Götz II, 23, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 1662-5 (II, p. 42); TYTK (Antalya) 999, 1472, 2733.