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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.433, cont., 12.434)

ginal title page; the title is printed in gold on the backing; glazed cream paper without watermarks; (l)+297+(l) folios; 233x160 mm and 175x115 mm, vary ing; 15 lines; catchwords, partly lost by trimming; calligraphic vowelled nesih\ headings, rubrics and dots in red; gold (oxidized to green) borders withing black lines (lb-2a); a crude headpiece with floral motifs in gold (green) on f. lb; without date and the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 129 (erworben 1931 in Kairo)’ is found on f. la. Begins (lb): »j a I .It Ta.^1 j a i f I * ** J T aS jh jlj (jLojjL*» ^ ajjl Aiifl tib 4-Lc. Ends (297b): ■* jLaiS y*li hi «5 alüjj\ ^ aILoi $jT aS a_. U. II t Jj\ 3 aK ^ .K ljjj 1> j ^ .iLaJjl 45 a)I jL j ljLx Catalogue entry: Sohrweide I, 313, where other MSS are mentioned.

Literature: GAL II, p. 62; B. Heller, ‘Strat ‘Antar’, in Ef\ Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights; A Companion (Penguin Books, 1994), pp. 91, 112-3.

Cod.Or. 12.434 A miscellany The volume contains songs by composers who were all Mevlevf shaykhs, and it was probably written for use in a convent of the order. The texts, undated, were copied by one unnamed copyist, clearly in the early 20th century. (1) pp. 1-98 A collection of songs The collection is arranged according to mode (makam), from rast to ‘Acem 'outran. Composers mentioned are [the Mevlevl] shaykh ‘Osman Dede Efendi Nayï (flourished early 12/18th century) (pp. 1, 4, 13, 17); isma‘11 Dede Efendi (Dervï§, d. 1261/1845) (pp. 7, 64, 83, 90, 93); the musahib-i §ehriydn, Ahmed Efendi (A|a, d. 1209/1794) (p. 10); EyyübïHüseyn Dede (d. 1153/1740) (p' 21,