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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.431)

Cod.Or. 12.431 Terceme-i Pendname-i §eyh ‘Attar jlkfc An early 18th-century copy of a translation in mesnevt verses of the Persian Pand- nama attributed to Farid ad-Din ‘Attar (d. after 586/1090, see B. Reinert in Encyclopaedia lranica) by Emri of Edime (d. 982/1574-5, cf. ‘OM II, p. 77). The title occurs both on the title page (la, a somewhat shortened version) and in a heading preceding the text (lb). The author is mentioned in the penultimate distich (34a). The work was completed in 964 (1556-7) according to a concluding chronogram, in which the year is mentioned in (written) Persian numbers. The translation was made for Prince Bayezfd b. Siileyman (mentioned in 19a:5), who was at that time governor of Kütahya (cf. §erafettin Turan in TDViA). The work proper is preceded by an (also rhymed) introduction (lb-2b), and ends in a ‘explanation of the usefulness of the Pandnama’ (34a). A few marginal additions, among them in pencil by Taeschner. (For another copy of the same work, see Cod.Or. 12.448(5), below.) The endpapers contain various notes: four Arabic distichs attributed to shaykh ‘Abdal-Qadiral-Gïlanï (penultimate flyleaf, recto); a calculation and calligraphic exercises, mostly in bold nesih (ibidem, verso); the last flyleaf (verso) contains jottings in various scripts and notes by an owner: a certain Siileyman b. ‘Abdullah memluk el-Hacc Hiiseyn £avu§ states that he acquired the manuscript on the morning of 20 Cemagf l-ewel 1131 (10 April 1719); it is followed by a note on the death Of ‘Osman Celebi b. ‘Abdullah on the morning of 5 Cemaii l-ewel of the same year (26 March 1719). Rebound, in which the original embossed leather covers, with two blind tooled insets in Oriental style, were used; a new red leather backing; glazed white paper; (l)+34+2+(l) folios; original foliation in red; another series of original folio numbers in black, 17-52, 63; 212x150 mm and 170x105 mm, varying; 15-16 lines; catchwords; nesih; headings and triple dots in red; completed in Receb 1125 (July-August 1713); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 126 (erw. 1931 in Kairo aus der Bibl. Nureddin Mustafa Pascha)’ is found on the first original flyleaf, recto. (The pasha may be identical with Nüruddïn Mustafa Bey mentioned in SO 2 IV, p. 1268. Bom in Egypt, he was later tercümdn of the Divan-i Hümayün and senator, and died in Istanbul in 1858. His library is mentioned in Joseph Schacht, ‘Aus den Bibliotheken von Konstantinopel und Kairo’, inAbhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 8(1928),