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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.348, cont., 12.349)

Geschichte der Futuwwa (Zurich & Munich 1979), pp. 424-549. Literature: Fr. Teaschner, ‘Futuwwa’, in EP; D.A. Breebaart, ‘The Fütüwet- name-i kebïr. A Manual on Turkish Guilds’, in JESHO XV (1972), pp. 203-15.

Cod.Or. 12.349 Tevariti-i Tiryaki Hasan Pa$a Li L u^L> èi A mid 18th-century copy of an anonymous history of the siege of Kanije (Kanizsa) by Habsburg troops and the skilled defence of the town by the beglerbegi of Bosnia, Tiryaki Hasan Pa$a (d. 1020/1611, cf. SCP II, p. 645), in 1010/1601 (cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji III, pp. 209-12). The title - with ‘Tïrü’ instead of ‘Tiryaki’; this error also often, but not always, occurs in the work itself - is found in a heading preceding the text on f. lb. The work is better known as Gazevdt-i Tiryaki Hasan Paja. (A pencil inscription on f. la has ‘Tiryaki Hasan Paja Gazevdti’.) The title of ‘Tevürüi-i fethty&t-i kal'e-i Kanice sene 1184' occurs on the title page (la). The work proper is preceded by a long introductory sentence which does not seem to be found in most MS copies (lb). The author, who was a witness to the events, mentions himself as bu fakir in f. 2a.3. The text does not show any formal divisions. (See also under Cod.Or. 14.435, below.) The text is followed by various annotations: recipes for paints of various colours, 9+16 lines (74b, 76a, small nk'a); a table in black and red for establishing the weekdays of the first of each lunar month (gurre-ndme), ascribed to ‘the late Mehmed Efendi’ (75a); a quatrain addressed to God, with the inscription: Ahmed, a follower of Esblzade es-Seyyid Mehmed, kazi of Bosnasaray (Sarajevo), and the owner’s signature of Stileyman, sOhib-i Kur an (in bold ta'lik). Rebound in boards covered in varicoloured marbled paper with brown cloth backing; glazed white paper; (l)+76+(l) folios; 220x130 mm and 160x70 mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; irregular ta'lik; the heading (lb) and the colophon (73a) in red; completed by Süleyman Muhylddïn Efendi b. el-Hacc ‘Abdullah Efendi b. Ebübekir Efendi in the afternoon of a Wednesday in Safer 1184 (May- June 1770) while his father was kagf (lit. hakim) of Rodoscuk/Tekfurdagt (modem Tekirdag); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 25’ by the owner himself occurs in f. la; a note by Taeschner on the title, copyist and references to