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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.354, cont., 12.355)

with brown leather backing; glazed white to cream paper; 25 folios; 188x117 mm and 140x70 mm, varying; 23 lines; catchwords; elegant small nesili: headings, rubrics, dots and lines in red; finished by Hüseyn in 1065 (1654-5); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 30’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la; a note by Taeschner on the title, author, contents and dating (according to Nasrullah the manuscript, in view of the writing style and quality of the paper, was less old than the colophon stated) is written on a separate piece of paper found in the MS. Begins (lb, after a besmele): ^ j jLSjl jL^>. a5 jjl j-u> aJTjjï Jjl J5L» j - i ® > ’ ». - ^ ... ^A4xtaju>d oj^c. aju j ... ói jS jL jl+y- ... tdL J ^1 >UI jlJV aIj ... sAjl ,jl 4i>-j ... Ends (24a): . ^ , .1,^. aS rt.alUa ... Jjl liJ » r ji a u<kA1 3J — cH->* » tjj aa>JI aj <uj ^ a« Ij I ó-* Colophon (ibidem): S • 30 ■- ,_a iCiLdi *I»I 40*Lol (jj ui» f 5 Catalogue entries: Fihris 4653-5 (IV, pp. 146-7); Karatay 1159-61, 3037; TTY 328 (3 MSS). Edition: Istanbul 1258 (cf. GOW, p. 275n). Literature: ‘OM I, p. 95.

Cod.Or. 12.355 Tarih-i Kamanige jujli An undated copy of a history of the conquest of Kamani<?e (Kamieniec or Kamenetz Podolski, Ukraine) during the Polish campaign of 1083/1672 (cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji III, pp. 440-1) by Yüsuf Nabï (d. 1124/1712). The title is found on the title page, f. la; the work is also known as ‘Fethname-i Kamamge’. Yüsuf Nabi mentions himself as katib (‘higmet-i kitabetleri olmagla') in f. 3a: 17.