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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.381, cont., 12.382)

varying; 15 lines, varying; catchwords (not in 1); calligraphic, partly vowelled, nesili; various scripts in (1); black lines; without date and name of copyist; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 58’, written by himself, is found on f. la. Literature: see my ‘Ottoman Hacc Manuals and the John Rylands Library MS Turkish 88’, in Culture: Unity and Diversity. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 12-14 July 1994 (University of Manchester), pp. 488-500.

Cod.Or. 12.382 hfusrev ii Sirin 3 A mid 16th-century copy of a free translation of Nizami’s mesnevi romance of the ■tame title by Yüsuf Sinan GermiyanI who used the pen-name of §eytjl (d. 855/1451-2). Many manuscripts have survived. (OnNizaml, d. c.600/1203-4, and his work, see E. Berthels in Ef.) The long poem is written in the same rhyme and metre (hezec) as the original; it is alternated with kastdes and gazels in which the pen-name of the author occurs. The title ‘Kissa-i ïjusrev ü Sirin’ appears in the headpiece preceding the text on f. lb (see plate). The work is preceded by a lengthy introduction (lb-24a), including an author’s preface (19b-21b) as well as sections in praise and counsel of Sultan Murad II (21b-24a) to whom the work was dedicated. The work concludes with an appendix (geyI) which is omitted in our copy. A few marginal glosses; a müfred is found in the margin of f. 2a. The title page (la) contains two extensive quotations on the biography of §ey(jl copied from the Kiinhii l-ahbar (7 lines) and the Sokdyiku nu’m&niye (11 lines, in Arabic). The endpapers contain, apart from blots and lines, a note on the number of folios (218b) and a Persian distich addressed to God (219b). (For other copies, see Cod.Or. 982, and Cod.Or. 14.560, below.) Rebound in, probably 1884 - a pencil note ’sene 884’ is found on the (new) penultimate, flyleaf - in brown leather boards embossed in Western style; glazed whitepaper; recently trimmed gold edges; (3)+219+(4) folios; 200x125 mm and 124x73 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesili', red headings (up to f. 23a) and borders; elaborately illuminated borders with dot and line patterns in red, blue and green on ff. lb-2a; a headpiece with geometrical patterns, floral motifs in black, blue, green, red and brown, and with a title in black siiliis, on f. lb (see