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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.347, cont., 12.348)

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Catalogue entries: Films 5042 (IV, p. 251); Kut 119; see also Cavid Baysun and Tietze’s articles. Literature: ‘OM III, p. 104; M. Cavid Baysun in 1A\ A. Tietze in Ef.

Cod.Or. 12.348 Fütüvvetndme-i kebir

An undated copy of a treatise on thefutuwwa customs and rituals of guilds by es- Seyyid Mehmed b. es-Seyyid ‘Ala’uddln el-Hüseyn(ï) er-Razavi, a kdzi of Bursa, written in 931/1524. The title is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb (the work is also known as Miftah ed-dakayikfi beyani l-fütüvve ve l-hakdyik, cf. Breebaart’s article). The author mentions himself in f. lb:4. Most works of this title seem to be summary versions and complete texts of the treatise seem to be rare (cf. Taeschner’s article). For a detailed description of contents, see Breebaart’s article. The treatise consists of a brief introduction (lb-2a) and a great number of chapters (fast and bdb), from Faslftbey&nfütüvvet Ibrahim ‘aleyhi s- selam (2a) to Fasl der beydn-i ba'i-i su’dl u cevdb (54b). (For another, incomplete, copy of this work, see Cod.Or. 12.427(1), below.) Blank pages are found in ff. 18b-21a and 31b-32a. Copious interlinear and marginal pencil annotations by Taeschner, mostly references to other MSS, including what is at present Cod.Or. 12.427 (‘BT’) and a (complete and illustrated) manuscript owned by Prof. Rudolf Tschudi of Basel, at present M M VI 35 in the Basel University Library (I am indebted to Dr Gudrun Schubert for this information), mentioned in Taescher’s article. (Apart from the El article, Taeschner wrote a number of studies on the phenomenon offutuwwa from 1928, cf. ‘Schriften-verzeichnis’, in Der Islam 39 (1964), pp. 261-70; see also Codices