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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.406, cont., 12.407)

Catalogue entries: Götz II, 516, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 3648-9 (ID, p. 187). Literature: A. Bausani, ‘Hikaya’ [ii] in El 2 ; Andreas Tietze, ‘Das tiirkische Ferec ba‘d e§-§idde als Medium der Wanderung orientalischer Stoffe ins Abendland’, in Proceedings of the XII. Congress of Orientalists II (Leiden 1957), pp. 412-20. *** The MS has been rebound; a green leather backing; the original, gold-embossed, front- and back-covers, with flap, have been re-used; glazed, white to cream paper; moisture stains in some places; occasional damage of edges, later restored; (l)+286+(l) folios; original numbers 224 to 509; 272x165 mm and 220x110 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords, partly lost by trimming; bold, vowelled nesih\ headings, rubrics, lines and colophons (except on f. 405a) in red; a crude headpiece in gold and blue on f. 224b; gold borders within black lines on ff. 224b-225a, 334b-335a, 349b-350a, 371b-372a, 406a and 478b-479a; simple gold borders on ff. 434b-435a; (2) was completed on 1 Rebi‘ iil-ewel 1103 (22 November 1691), (3) on the 23rd of the same month (14 December 1691), and (5) was finished at noon of an unspecified day; without the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 87’, written by himself, occurs on f. 224a.

Cod.Or. 12.407 el-Ferec ba'd e§-§idde a^dJl £>*)• A late 15th-century copy of an anonymous collection of forty-two stories in simple, unembellished Turkish. The title is mentioned in the first line on f. la. The stories are preceded by an introduction, in which it is stated that the stories were compiled by a number of scholars, and a survey of the contents (la-2b, see plate). The stories, mostly numbered by written Persian ordinals numbers, are found on the following pages: (1) 2b; (2) 11a; (3) 19b; (4) 29b; (5) 37b; (6) 45a; (7) 51a; (8) 54a; (9) 64b; (10) 68b; (11) 71b; (12) 79a; (13) 85a; (14) 91b; (15) 96a - the 16th according to the index - (16) 100b - the 15th according to the index - (17) 107a; (18) 117b - the story of the judge and the learned thief, a