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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.417, cont., 12.418)

gely consists of a series of Arabic quotations (in red), followed by translations and an interpretation of the contents. Following sections are devoted to technicalities related to bow, arrow and archery practice. Bound in embossed dark brown leather, with blind tooled insets in Oriental style; lighter brown leather back and edges; glazed white paper; 1 +30 folios; 210x130 mm and 160x76 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; calligraphic nesih; headings, rubrics and Arabic quotations in red; gold borders within black lines; a crude headpiece in gold, orange and blue (see plate); completed by Ahmed b. ‘Abdullah in 1070 (1659-60); two owners’ seals, rubbed out and mostly illegible, are found on f. la; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 100’ is found on the same page.

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Catalogue entries: Pertsch (Berlin), 163, where one other MS is mentioned. Literature: Joachim Hein, ‘Bogenhandwerk und Bogensport bei den Osmanen’, in Der Islam 14 (1925), pp. 289-360, and 15 (1926), pp. 233-94; A. Boudot- Lamotte, ‘Raws’, in EÏ 1 .

Cod.Or. 12.418 A miscellany A scrapbook with annotations in, seemingly, three different hands, compiled in the 1840s and 1850s - a part of the original administrative notes have been washed off towards the end of the volume and some pages there used again. Some folios