177

THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.393, cont.)

is a müseddes on ff. 8b-10a. The series is followed by verses in mcsnevf rhyme (64b-71a); a kaside (71a-72a); a kaside in ebced rhyme (72a-73a); a fragment (four beyts, 73a); a mesnevi (73a-74b); seven quatrains (74b-75a); and another mesnevi(75a-76a). The poetry is followed (76a-94b) by eight letters on, mostly, mysticism and the ‘path’, which contain some poetry (83a-b and 91a). (For other copies of the same work, see Codices Or. 8259 and 11.039.) The work is preceded by a poem of three distichs in gazel format (la). A note dated 1292 (1875) occurs on the last page (‘i$bu bin ikiyüz doksan iki senesinde Senf-oglu Mehmed hazrete beyan edmi§dir... ’ [?], 95b). Bound in embossed dark brown leather with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed white paper; the title ‘Dfvdn-i Ha^im Üsküdarf is written on the bottom edge, 95 folios; 208x155 mm and 178x127 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; crude, irregular nesih; double red borders; dated Tuesday 14 Cemait l-ahir 1256 (13 August 1840); without the name of a copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 74’, written by himself, occurs on f. la. The pedigree begins (lb, after a besmele): u < Kia.» f-iu -V*JI «Lflj-tbuLe jl*}.» j ajj*~- -r objlj t£3 j-j t a <<<ju-iJI V '“ [ 1 oaIIj jjt jJaJI gl>| ^ l|, The work proper begins (ibidem): oojI ^ dLab olj al»* a ^ „m.„. Id Ends (94b): 1*^-“' 3 ^iJ >Jjl Ji-lj 4jLul>- L j_, *A ^l< jjiJ ... Oj • H *‘II Al) AaïJI j ü„‘ ^ • “ j i ^ Colophon (ibidem): t'1 UJi-» J>«-» » L_Jo V * uU>11 lilla yjbu Jjl , U.J ailjb üLï^l * ü**ol jis^b ,*jjjb * [four beyts] * I*34 Ü3I ^ jLt> oU oaüJT ydUl jj_. <_■ I . a-. ... * aiiliJI Catalogue entries: Götz I, 34-5, and Sohrweide I, 78, where other MSS are mentioned.