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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.387)

Cod.Or. 12.387 A miscellany of works by Münïf The undated, but clearly mid to late 18th-century, manuscript contains works in prose and poetry by the state official, diplomat and littérateur Mustafa Münïf (d. 1155/1742-3) - for a similar collection and references, see Cod.Or. 12.385 above. A biography of the author is found in (1), below. The tide ‘Divdn-i Münïf is found on f. la. Two chronograms ‘by the scribe’, who was called TakT, are found in f. 2a; tiiey commemorate the appointment of Ibrahim to the position of mufti and the birth of a boy called Mehmed, both dated 1188 (1774-5). (1) ff. 2b-13b An anonymous biography of the author, lavishly illustrated with verses in Turkish, Persian and Arabic, and written after his death; it occurs in other manuscripts of Münïf s collected works (cf. GOD IV, p. 164; Götz I, p. 270). A few marginal additions. Begins (2b): ... U>3 y-iilj Xa-£ 4U* * Ua (jiii-J >5jj aJaj <_>j Li J CJ—<lj Jr>2 ,,i« J*p¥l ^ ,*>**>• I ■ tj il ••• J t<-*3^*-* aLI Ü-» Ends (13a-b): pjj jjjJ A-lii uu»fI Cum) * fiab C*a*3 jL> jJ (2) ff. 14b-25a Zafername A description of the Belgrade campaign of 1152 (1739). The title ‘Zafer-name-i menjür’ is found in the heading preceding the text in f. 14b. The name of the author appears in f. 23a: 13. The work is followed by a rhymed version in kaaide format (23b-25a) describing the same event, headed ‘Zqfer-ndme-i mensur' '. The prose version begins (14b): a> »b jib 0-xa>42 ^1 aaj Lu*S AiJ,