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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.355, cont.)

The history was commissioned by his patron Musahtb Mustafa Pa§a (d. 1097/1686, cf. SO 1 IV, p. 1203) who had appointed him secretary to the Divan. It is preceded by an introduction (lb-3b) with praise of Sultan Mehmed [IV] (cf. 2a: 14), the Grand Vizier [Faztl] Ahmed Pa§a (2b:21) and the second vizier, Musahib Mustafa Pa§a (3a: 14). A few marginal corrections and additions. (For another copy of this work, see Cod.Or. 25.761(1), below.)

Bound in gold-tooled brown leather; glazed cream paper without watermarks; the title is written on the bottom edge; 32 folios; 206x140 mm and 151x75 mm; 23 lines; catchwords; small nesta‘lik\ headings, rubrics, lines and borders in red; gold borders withing black lines on ff. lb-2a; a headpiece with floral patents in gold, pink and blue on f. lb; without date and the name of a copyist; an owner’s inscription of Mehmed Salim occurs on f. la; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 31’ by the owner himself occurs in f. la; a note by Taeschner on the title, author and purchase (from Nasrflllah at ‘Constantinople’, Summer 1924) is written on a separate piece of paper found in the MS. Begins (lb): -Wi* »J* J cr? * j-djl _**jb oXls+mi I a»- aL Ends (31a): jli- =] a x,i n-»j ^1} oaJIs JJj Lj.jJjl ^ Li*»' Catalogue entries: Flemming 167-8, where other MSS are mentioned; see also Fihris 3604-6 (III, pp. 176-7); Karabulut 291; TYTK (Siileymaniye, Ali Nihat Tarlan) 418. Edition: Istanbul 1281. Literature: GOW, p. 238; Agah Sim Levend, Gazavat-nameler ve Mihaloglu Ali Bey’in Gazavdt-namesi (Ankara 1956), pp. 126-7; Abdiilkadir Karahan in ÏA; E.G. Ambros in Ef.