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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.423, cont.)

rüsüm-i ‘askerfye and kismet-i ‘askenye, paid to local kassams in 1103/1691-2, and ten original signatures with seals of kdifs (kassams) in various places, among these Bafra, Ctne, Merzifon and Larende, with additional remarks in smaller script, see plate); 141b-142a (an inventory of financial transactions related to the aforementioned journey to Medina from Edime by way of Izmir, mentioned on, respectively, 141b and 142a, where also Haccf Bekta§ is again mentioned: Efendi hazretleriniin vakfi temessiikdti Haccf Bektas deftere tesltm siid’ (141b), years i 110 and 1111); 142 (an inventory of goods with prices, worth a total of 396 kurus; the name of ‘Abdullah Efendi is mentioned in the heading); 143a (a note on the dismissal of Ahmed Efendi from his post at Kangin (Cankin)); 143b-144a (notes regarding the evkaf of Kara Celebizade Mehmed Efendi at Istanbul, administered by el-Hacc ‘Osman, with a list of functionaries, followed by an inventory of amounts of money received in 1110 and 1111; el-Hacc Bekta§ Celebi, with the sum of 351 kurus, is mentioned on 144a); 144b-149b (an inventory of kazas in Anatolia, with red numbers, arranged according to livd, from Aydin to Revan (Yerevan)); 150a-153b (an inventory of kazas in Rumelia, written in a different hand, but without numbers, from Bosna to §emontorya (Simontomya), see plate); 154b-156a (an inventory of various officials charged with commemorating the death of the valide sultan and other duties at the vakf of the Efendi, with aditional notes, years 1009-1111; Hacci Bekta§ Celebi occurs in the first entry, 154b); 158b-160a (various administrative notes concerning the same foundation, partly blotted out); 160b (a model authorization for an exchange of vakfi, imza-i istibdal, issued by the kazf of Istanbul, ‘Abdurralimanb. el-Mevla el-merhüm §eyb el-Kazf, followed by financial notes); 161a (an inventory of place names with numbers in red); 162a-164a (various annotations, dated 1109 and 1111, partly blotted out); and 164b-169b (a collection of annotations and fragments of letters concerning the posting and work of kdzis and other ilmfye functionaries, in various hands and partly crossed out; years 1103/1691-2 (166b), 1107/1695-6 (166a), and 1108/1696-7 (167b); a list of goods with their weights is found on 167a; the note: ‘the Efendi, at the request of el-Hacc Bekta§, promised to send the paper to the timekeeper of Geyve, Mehmed Bekta§ Efendi’, dated 1103 in a different hand, occurs on 168a). Apart from these administrative notes, the volume contains a collections of stories (hikaye), all written in the same ta'lfk script. In the first series (17a-21b), each three are headed (in red) ‘hikdyet-i garibedur nakl jAT and have a more or less historical setting. The first story begins: jL>. w -1 jUaJLx jU (**»->• cr^ 1 -' 111 fW 1 'ÜJ***-* j-jK r jLuLa- ft» !..<•»« ■*> ‘j*