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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.378, cont., 12.379)

erroneous, title, 'Menasik-i hicdb', occurs. The booklet gives a succinct survey of the duties, obligations and customs, numbered in red, related to the pilgrimage, followed by the text of ayats, prayers and salutations to be said at the various stages of the tour along the holy places (from f. 7b). Bound in boards with flap and leather backing and edges; white glazed paper without watermarks; (l)+22+(l) folios; 145x100 mm and 100x55 mm, varying; 7 lines; catchwords; coarse, irregular, vowelled nesih; headings, rubrics, dots and double borders in red; coarse flower decoration in gold, red, blue along the borders of ff. lb-2a; a few interlinear gold lines in the same pages; without a date and the name of a copyist; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 55’, written by himself, is found on f. la. Begins (lb-2a, after a besmele): ■< ■-«- ■ 3 <JI j Aoa,« b V m «5LuJI j 3 jJLdJI 3 ój «II til <—i_j ail aa»JI .'I----— I ajLII - 1 jjjl Q>- /I Klb-« 33 AJLJ Ul Ijj f «•vl Jjjdj if3 3 Ends (19b-20a): II m II i ,j a 11 ^4^J| 3 •• • Uf 1 * ■ “ * A ‘ a 3 ^ CjF 33 o 4i i o 4j Li- ^ I ... Colophon (20a): <oj b <üJ V all L« t~ |»5LaJI JÜUJI cluLlu jy>JI lULuLla uLi cUi Literature: see Jan Schmidt, ‘Ottoman Hacc Manuals and the John Rylands Library MS Turkish 88’, in Culture: Unity and Diversity. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 12-14 July 1994 (University of Manchester), pp. 488-500.

Cod.Or. 12.379 Menasik-i hacc-i §enf <-Jiu>i tiJLwL* A mid 18th-century copy of an anonymous manual for pilgrims, another copy of which is described under Cod.Or. 12.377, above. No title is found in this copy. First and last words are identical with those found in the aforementioned manuscript and they are found on, respectively, f. 2b and 30b. Copious marginal corrections, additions, including quotations from Sinan Efendi’s Menasikii l-hacc (cf. f. 17b) and a gazel by SezayT (25b), and indications of content. The work is