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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.348, cont.)

Or. 12.427 and 12.429, below.) The treatise is followed (56b-60b) by a long didactic poem in mesnevf rhyme by, probably YernTnl (cf. the third before last distich, 60b: yeter dedün Yemenibu kelami...), divided into several sections and interrupted by various quotations in Arabic. A devotional text in Arabic, including a prayer, is found on f. 62b (12 lines).

Rebound in boards covered in marbled paper and dark red cloth backing; glazed cream paper without watermarks; (l) + l+62+(l) folios; 241x160 mm and 90x192 mm, varying; 25 lines; catchwords; small nesih, partly vowelled (the mesnevf poem is written in smaller nesih, probably by" the same copyist, in, mostly, diagonal lines arranged into six horizontal columns per page); headings, rubrics and borders in red; remnants of a varicoloured pasted-in picture of flowers are seen in the top margin of f. lb; without date or the name of a copyist; the inscription Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 21’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la - a pencil note with the title, the year 1928 and the name Nasrflllah is found on the first flyleaf, recto.

Begins (lb, after a besmele): jU-i ajU ,j_.... j iili aJUj aS U ... (Js>d»l (jJU. fiUJI 3 S^LaJI 3 LiVI yit AjJ AA3.J yJI jJr.j.JI jxiiJI ü-Ü^iSJLo, JAijJJÜ» ... JjaII ••• l r J 1 (_>"LaiJl jii.iv 3 . a_i i ia ... jI.M y, .$ Ends (55b):

yJI L^a, yit AjUI yj*» 3 crLt

Colophon (ibidem):

Ü.' «II * II ljj aJJ j

k Ifkilt .*11 o,l) j j 11 LX) j .*■ II LJbill t ~ The mesnevf poem begins (56b, after a besmele): jl—T aJ*. >*Lj ^) 3 * jjLuil aJ>» bJjl v, J.» Ai. <o Ends (60b): J*l ^1 lix, ^1 jJLj * c,Ll^ J<- ,1.1 Catalogue entries: Götz II, 164, and Sohrweide II, 94, where other MSS are mentioned.

Translation: by Franz Taeschner, in Zmfte undBruderschaften in Islam. Texte zur