220

THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.407, cont.)

different version of which is found in Cod.Or. 12.406(4), above - (19) 121a; (20) 133b; (21) 139a; (22) 148a; (23) 150b; (24) 152b; (25) 155a; (26) 175a; (27) 195b; (28) 208b - erroneously numbered ‘26th’ - (29) 220b; (30) 222a; (31) 240a; (32) 251a; (33) 262b - 34th in the index, where the 33nd item has been skipped - (34) 272b - 35th in the index - (36) 291a; (37) 296b - erroneously numbered ‘36’ - (38) 330a - erroneously numbered ‘37’ - (39) 301b - wrongly numbered ‘38’ - (40) 304b - ‘39’ - (41) - ‘40’ - (42) - ‘41’. A few marginal corrections and addi tions; a calculation is found in the top margin of f. la. (For another, incomplete, copy and references, see under Cod.Or. 12.406(6), above.) Rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper and a red linen back; cream paper of varying quality and degree of glazing, stained, tom and frayed in various places, but later partly restored; f. 72, exceptionally, contains a watermark of three crescents and may have been added later; (1)+318+1+(1) folios, with original (Oriental) numbers; 235x170 mm, varying; 205x140 mm, varying; 19 lines, 13 lines on f. 72b; almost all catchwords have disappeared owing to paper damage and trimming; irregular nesih (la-b, 62a-71b), irregular vowelled ta‘lik(2a-58a), elegant vowelled nesih(16a-b; 58b-62b, 73a-319a), and bold, widely spaced nesih (72a-b); headings, rubrics, Arabic quotations, and, occasionally, lines and dots in red; completed on the forenoon of Friday 20 Cemaiï l-ahir 896 (30 April 1491); without the name of a copyist; owners’ seals with the legend Mehmed ibn... Mehemmedf are found in the margins of ff. 17a, 48a (partly cut off), 62a, 90a, 106a, 122a, 138a, 154a, 202a, 218a, 226a, 282a, 297a, 315a, 319a; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 88’, written by himself, occurs on f. 224a.

Begins (la-b): JJ JJ ÜJ Ul ... i [*=] j-i oaJJI £>JI yijl j >j' ‘ -~l *LS> a 5L«ai *Uic. L, 4-3 jl Li Jjxy.a a CjJ*jfc 4»jjjl ... aJ j •••

Ends (319a): jj» Ia». >_i «>.j gjJji jISjLj O^^bl a-jll a 4-4-1cH_>3T 9 SJ-* J-*' S ajlv "i>i« a S OA-UII aS jjt aJL&JI l_jj L» 4jliS >—h».l i/> a * * 111 S *4 S [word partly lost by fraying] ... ^>ai J* a*öüs ai _>13

Colophon (319b, see plate):