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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.370, cont., 12.371) margin; a pencil note by him stating that he acquired the manuscript in 1927 is found (in pencil) on the first flyleaf, verso. Begins (la): ... . L*al jij— w cH' jjjlj fS J^il uJUiS v—U» ii»Jl Ends (111b): MJ Lj >tl 3 J.h a» J— aj>lS *«A*4 J$l j I-. •.] ... 4LI yi-» 4 óe-JUH I_»J <L 4 » 0*- JUJI j. I..j-.lt ... i_«>*o J Jj>*UaJ1 4 üe-* A3 r' *3^-" 4 4 ^ Colophon (ibidem): . , . „ - \. VT ... ciljL-o *-» -«all ^ j Vi aia ji>*«3 i>* £.*>*” £** f f { *54J^I <-">*» Ó* ■ U>J Catalogue entries: see Kaptein’s monograph, pp. 141-6, where 63 MSS are mentioned. Edition: chapter 17, with facsimile of the present MS, in Kaptein’s monograph, pp. 151-227. Translations: separate chapters into French (cf. Götz II, p. 320); chapter 17 into Dutch (Kaptein’s monograph, pp. 153-215). Literature: Laban Kaptein, Eindtijd en Antichrist (ad-Daggal) in de Islam; Eschatologie bij Ahmed Bfcan (t ca. 1466) (Leiden 1997), in particular chapter 2, where also references to older literature are found. Cod.Or. 12.371 A miscellany The manuscript contains three works, written in nesih of, essentially, two different styles. The name of a scribe, el-Haccf Halil b. Mustafa, is mentioned in the colophon of (2), f. 194b.