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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.421, cont.)

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Literature: A. Rippin, ‘Sadida’, in El 2 . (2) ff. 7b-30b [Risale-i] Tayyibetii l-ezkar ft medineti l-envar 4‘u J-a jLS jVI ** j j [ * aJLu/ j] A copy of a memoir on the city of Medina and its religious rituals by Dervï§ Ahmed §ikanzade, head precentor at the Koca Mustafa Mosque in Istanbul (d. 1241/1825-6). The name of author is found in f 7b:3-4. The title is not mentioned here, but it is found in other manuscript copies. The title page (la) has the title ‘Haktkatndme-i hacc-i serif in pencil, added by, probably, a bookseller. The work consists of an introduction (7b-8a) and 25 short chapters. In the introduction the author explains that he spent a year in Medina - the 'tayyibet' of the title is, among other things, an epithet of the town - in 1206 (1791-2) when a certain Mehmed ‘Ata’ullah son of Monlacikzade ishak Efendi was kOit in the town. During that period he had ‘arrived at the truth of everything’ and he decided to write down his experiences in order to arouse ‘Muhammedan love’ in his friends. Nearly all chapters are filled with the description of prayers performed on all kinds of occasions, mostly in memory of historical events in the days of the Prophet. A besmele in siiliis is written upside-down on f. 31b. Begins (7b, after a besmele): 4J1 <■*"»! 3 4JI 1 £ 3 Lj ..,) ijJLt fL-JI j a jjLxJI j 3II » II |_)J tUJ l L2)L jljSI j j*ÏJ 1» C 3J 4& 4J3I 4>Lu« 1t ) Ul (ju »4T») • 41111 jjjJI jfj5_iI l j ! fj ... ojlj^jlüj [* ajJLla] End (p. 46); j 3j 1 >015 4JL3 p-A jjl> La- u Ji nS jJjlj 4jj^ci (_,«!-»«-»<> L 4j 0 33 jjL 4j ojL» kL1x.L4.d1 Catalogue entries: HOM, p. 242; Flemming 330, where one other MS is mentioned; see also Fihris 3420 (III, p. 128); Kut 395-6; Schmidt 32(1). Literature: cf. Flemming, p. 262.