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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.422, cont.)

The hiikiim begins (22a): O y. Jjiljs) LxJs J aS ^5 ~>- Aj OJJJJ jiiLiiL (J—A «4M.J ... JÜ9 ji» ^^JUI jiL-u i ... j j cP»;* ■") i

Ends (31b): .<•.... aijL kJULI ■-.;•■ I■» r « j jAs- jüiiLi- i cjj^L» Ji? «21» j rt-i.i Jl Jauu/ljl \ ^ AA The ni§an begins (32a): iUJI *I>«VI jLüil ... jLUl 2-jj **-*• ü*! 1 -** li 1 - 1 * ... <uj9 19-c- !.•:■< «•;■>■ Oj J^»l m5lr. ... <<J•*»_■ ■»*JI Ends (34b): jjjl^aj, j L«j iL». LaJai $ 5LaI ojli->- >lli f Lit jii Jjl i » Y V N % A-»•• ■“ jJ aJL <tJjl i~i i*tla»»4 Edition (of the treaty): Mu'aheddt MecmU'asi III, pp. 254-73. Translation (of the treaty): Gabriel Noradounghian, Receuil des actes intemationaux et de Vempire ottoman (Paris 1897) I, pp. 319-333. Literature: Dani§mend, Kronoloji IV, pp. 57-9; Keith Hitchins, The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford 1996), pp. 14-8, 21 ff.

(2) ff. 39b-60a A treatise on the ethics of government An copy of an anonymous treatise on good government offered to Sultan Selim II (ruled 974/1566-982/1574). The word treatise (risdle) is mentioned in f. 39a: 12; the author refers to himself with the impersonal ‘bu haktr’ in f. 39a:9. (The title page, f. la, has a title in pencil ‘Sultan Selim hakkinda risale-i müfïde', probably by a bookseller.) The work is based exclusively on (‘filled with and full of) hadith and the words of the ‘imams’ of the Hanafite school; the texts largely consists of Arabic quotations with Turkish commentary headed 'ma'ndsi in red. It consists of a brief introduction (38b-39b) and three chapters (bdb): (1) praise of the righteous ruler (39b); (2) censure of the tyrannical ruler (41b); and (3) advice (nasihatlar, 43b). No references to this work have been found. A few interlinear and marginal additions and corrections.