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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.362, cont.)

described from in f. 38a - Galata (43a) - inhabited by carousing Franks - Eyiib (45a), Kagidbane (46b), followed by (highly abstract) concluding statements (hasb-i hat) on Istanbul (47b) and the author’s experiences (51a) as well as a conclusion (hatime, 54b), including an explanation of the (pious) motives which induced the author to write the book (from 57b). A few marginal additions. Added to the text are: two lines in Persian and a copy of a part of a petition to the Porte (13 lines, angular divani) (59b); the opening compliments of another petition from Mevlana Süleyman, kazi of Tarsus (8 lines, spidery divani), idem, from Nasiruddlh Beg (8 lines, small angular divani) (60a); a note with four signatures commemorating a nevrüz party held by a group of men in the NizamTye quarter on Saturday 11 Rebfü l-ahir 995 (20 March, 1587, 5 slanting lines, divani, 60b); two Persian words (jerf, $igerf) with equivalents in Arabic and Turkish (61b). Bound in embossed brown leather with flap and blind, partly gold, tooled insets in Oriental style; glazed white paper; title with the word ‘Kostantiniye’ is written on the upper edge; 2+62+1 folios; 203x135 mm and 130x70 mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; talik; titles, rubrics, Arabic quotations and dots in red; gold borders within black and red lines, gold dots and flourishes within separate gold borders are found on ff. lb-2a; headpiece with floral motifs in gold, red, blue and white on f. lb (see plate); without date (but cf. above) and the name of a copyist; the inscription Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 39’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la; a note by Taeschner on the content, title, name of the author, dating and purchase (from Nasrüllah, Summer 1924), and written on a separate piece of paper, is found in the MS. Begins (lb): 4~*j Jjl óijiï jaïL£*« jUjl* » oLil£ *L» *LjI aS Ends (59a): 3 1+»aJI ,jj Ul>>’l jd*ol j O.'-*.ILuaJI j «Lüïl ylt bulbil . a ill fUj 1*^-1 J L O+i+M iJsLS & Edition: Nermin Suner (Pekin), Ldtifi, Evsaf-i Istanbul (Istanbul 1977). Literature: Nihad M. getin in ÏA and Ef ; W.G. Andrews, ‘The Tezkere-i 5 u‘ara of Latifi as a Source for the Critical Evaluation of Ottoman Poetry’ (Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1970).