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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.387, cont., 12.388)

floral patterns in gold, pink, orange, red and green in ff. 2b and 65b (see plate); without a date; copied by Takï (cf. above); owners’ inscriptions of §ey(jï, with the year (?) 1200 (1785-6), and of the hace of the Divan, Halil, dated 17 Safer [12J33 (27 December 1817, la); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 68’, written by himself, occurs on f. la; a piece of paper with notes on the author, title, illumination and purchase (from Nasmllah, Constantinople, Summer 1924) by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS.

Cod.Or. 12.388 Divan ., An undated incomplete copy of a collection of poems by the poetess Ziibeyde Hamm, who used the pen-name of Fitnat (d. 1194/1780). The pen-name is written in pencil on the title page (la). Apart from being incomplete, the sequence of the various parts is also broken and mixed up; the headpiece in f. lb was probably meant for a separate, second, part, beginning with the gazels, as in the printed version. We find the following items: two gazels rhymed in elif (lb, the catchword ‘zahira’ does not match the first word on the next page but fits in with that on f. 8a); a gazel rhymed in yd, missing the first distich (begins: ne horfur ayik u ma §uk beyninde niydz u ndz', 2a; cf. the printed version II, p. 25:11); a miiseddes (2a-b); four sarkis (2b-3b); eight kit'as, the last of which is dedicated to the grand vizier, Mustafa Pa§a (3b-4a); three riddles (elgdz, 4a-b); 33 one-line riddles of which the solution are names mentioned in red headings preceding the distichs {mu'ammdt, 4b-6b, 7a); twelve müfreds (6b-7a); two gazels, headed ‘gazeliyat-i nevakis’ (the printed version has: harfii. l-cim-i nakis, II, p. 4, 20 - the first item is rhymed in dm), the second of which contains parts of a ‘gazel-i nevdkisdt’ (7b, see the printed version II, pp. 30 and 31; the catchword ‘ttttT does not match the first word on the following page); 45 gazels in divan sequence, rhymed elif to ha, continuing f. lb (8a-15b, the catchword in f. 15b, ‘keyfiyet’, does not match the first word on the following page) - two additional gazels are found in the margins of ff. 12b and 14b - two hemistichs, the last line of a quatrain, the first distich of which is lacking (16a, begins l dü§mezse nola ru-yi zemine sdyen', cf. the printed version I, p. 2:14-5); a tahmis on the na't-i serif by Es‘ad Efendi (16a-18b); a behdriye kaside for Sultan Mahmüd [I] (18b-19a)- a kaside for Hekfmba§izade ‘All Pa§a (19a-20a); a 'idiye kaside for Grand Vizier Mustafa Pa§a (20a-b); a kaside (chronogram) on the enthronement of Sultan Mus-