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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.380, cont.)

{fetvas); the third (58a) actually consists of a schematic survey , partly in two and three columns, of the holy places to visit between Mecca and Üsküdar, and those outside Cairo (65a-66a); for some places succinct historical information on local saints is added. A few marginal additions by the copyist. A few pious lines and a statement by kapudan Mehmed Nürï Aga, declaring that on Saturday-night 23 January 1303 (Rümi) a son called Mehmed Beha’uddln was bom at his house at the Hacci Uusrev quarter in Kasimpa$a [Istanbul], are found on f. la; the ‘Christian year’ 1888 and the ‘Jewish year’ 5648 are added as well as the remark that on that day and the two following so much snow had fallen such as had not been seen in Istanbul since five or ten years (9 lines, small nk'a). Bound in boards with flap covered in varicoloured marble paper and with brown leather backing and edges; glazed cream paper; 66 folios; 165x110 mm and 115x65 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesih\ headings, rubrics and lines in red; completed in Zxl-ka'de 1235 (August-September 1820) by the author; it was the third copy; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 57’, written by himself, is found on f. la; a piece of paper with notes on the title, copyist, dates and purchase (from Nasrüllah, Constantinople, Summer 1925) by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS. Begins (lb, after a besmele): I r f 1 *. , * I c £ O jl.f. I f. Jöjj All AX) \ 0>ill ■ ui ... pbVI J 1 aum»- jLulL j ujLlSJI Irf--*»'». 1 jt»JI (jjl oj aLIa*a. £k*JI jj-aü jj >j i jj* ... |»L«I aXuLijJu £oli> Ait aV I ^jjLuajin Ends (25b-36a): j. «jt .vi «i «.^* 3 Aj. t«I j 4j *IjA# a ^5 \~ij I *—>W j L JL»JI Vliji V j j*». t ) ... a**JI IAa jIskï V |&^ill *Lt^ jijJidJI Colophon (36a): »ll 4X1 V r £ L>JI £ L~,.>.a)l t_Cl AaII JJ 5 a II A) .« £ Aj AA CtU a3 i ^jLmaïVI IJ«I irJ* &*'■*■* (•*-♦** 3 a1)\ jJ fo I* \ Wo 4iui tLJLLII a ■>. m ill o Aa Cii at j ' V Y\ 4i**i ^ jLJI The appendix begins (36a): ijZjj JJ aLaL ^La^aJI aj aa UjLu jjJL# u^>Aa i j-i*. AjA >i j-j Aj ... ijSi i^ajI c_i3-Jjl <—j3 ojjjl jLuJ Ends (66a):