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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.583, cont.)

VI. A letter from Halil Edhem [Eldem, 1861-1931, Director of Ottoman/Turkish Museums] 18. 16 October [19]29. A folded sheet of chequered paper, one page; includes a transcription by Taeschner, one sheet, two pages. Sender had received Taeschner’s letter via Doctor Scheede and was very grateful. ‘I asked Doctor Wittek to take with him a box for me when he goes to Berlin... We were very sorry that you could not come hither this year... First it was very hot, then it started to rain violently..." VII. A letter from Hasan Fehmf, Director of Libraries, Ministry of Education. 19. 20 September [1]930. A sheet of chequered paper, one page; includes a transcription by Taeschner, two sheets, two pages. Sender thanks Taeschner for the off-print of [his edition of] Kerdmat-i Ahi Evren [cf. under Cod.Or. 12.429(4), first printed as Ein MesnevT Gülschehn's aufAchi Evran, Gliickstadt & Hamburg 1930], Giil§ehn’s work was, sender thought, the first thing in Turkish written in Anatolia (and develops his ideas on this matter in the rest of the letter). (2) An envelope with a talisman consisting of a folded piece of paper with texts in Arabic. The envelope has the text ‘Amulatten' and the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 124’. (3) A list (one page) of ‘Futuwwa-Handschriften' borrowed from Prof. [Paul] Kahle, typescript and handwritten (by Taeschner), 6 items mentioned. (4) A list (one page) of editions of the journal Peydm-i Sabah, 1920-2, and notes on their contents, nk‘a, probably by Nasrullah Tabriz!. (5) A typed list (one page) of 11 items, mostly Turkish miniature albums, lent by Taeschner to the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, signed [Kurt] Erdmann dated 15.3.1937. (6) A carbon copy (one page) of a typed letter from Taeschner to Prof. Dr. Kurt Erdmann, 4.2.1963, in which sender inquires about the fate of his loan (cf. (5), above); Taeschner had heard that a box with the albums had been abtransportiert by the Russians after the fall of Berlin but that holdings were being returned too