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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.371, cont.)

(1) ff. lb-139b Diirr-i meknün . . < An undated copy of the same work as described under Cod.Or. 12.370, above. The title is found in a heading preceding the text and in f. 2b:3. (For references, see under the previous description.) A few marginal additions and indications of content. Heading (lb): óLsJI tr U,l [?] jj- .*■ ,ii Begins (lb-2a, after a besmele): *** Ul ■ • (jójVI jl yJUj j/l Jli . 3 J» 3 AjI>,| hi From the mtroduction (2b): ‘LjoL>.I I jljliS a jL 4ka*£ ... J-» i i*-» 5 *' ** MJ15S CijsJiSj3jI Jit kiLi^j Ends (139b): ■■ &**** 3 <lh+i 0*-> aj5 iS <ujjj Jjl ^^5 a-ltJ ^ ■u>< oi-» j ó-^lüüt *1/ j j-i.L j ó^JUJI u,j L .'ii.Jia I 4 I* I* cHJ-*OaJI 0-*JaJI *>**■**■• 3 4JI j xum L- ,. ^|, (2) ff. 140b-194b ‘Acöyibü l-nuüilükat 0 ü ^ ^ An undated copy of a popular cosmography by the author who also wrote (1), Yaziciogli Ahmed Bïcan (d. in or after 870/1465-6). The title is mentioned in a heading preceding the text (140b) and in f. 194b: 11; the name of the author is found in f. 140b:3 and f. 194b: 12. The work is an abbreviated version of a work of the same title by Qazwfm (d. 682/1283, cf. GAL S I, p. 882) and was written for shaykh Hacci Bayram in Gallipoli, mentioned in f. 140b:9, in 857/1453, the year m which Sultan Mehmed conquered Istanbul. A detailed description of the contents is found in Rieu, pp. 106-7. The work ends in a section on the scorpion and a prayer for the author. A few marginal corrections and additions.