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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.428, cont., 12.429)

laTj $ L*j i jolï s j ip*, j jJL>. |»Lj Author and title are found on f. 4a (as in the printed edition of 1275, p. 7): fb ^AALi 4Ü-HÏ f-Xj A * aLajI Ay., ,M I A3. ■ ’«I UII ^ jli ♦ a aI .hV.iA jb a * i^JubLli ajIaS Ends (34b, as in the printed edition of 1275, p. 23:4-5): U.jflawTiA >~i r Luai a Aj ifi■>,a aJLi * Lc a <Uj jXj I ^aS jjb tu ^aaLoi Catalogue entries: Sohrweide II 199, where other references are fond; see also Fihris 518-32 (I, pp. 133-6); Schmidt 34, 115, G 1500(1); §e$en III 694/3; TiYK 55; TYTK (Antalya) 1633-5; TYTK (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi) 105. Editions: Istanbul 1275; Antoinette C. Verburg, ‘The Tuhfe-i §dhidr: a Sixteenth Century Persian-Ottoman Dictionary in Rhyme’, in Archivum Ottomanicum 15 (1997), pp. 5-87 (in transcription, with translation and glossary). Literature: Janos Eckmann, ‘Kamüs’ in Ef \ Storey III, pp. 66-7; see also the introduction to Verburg’s edition.

Cod. Or. 12.429 A miscellany The volume contains five main texts, none dated, concerned with Islamic brother hoods (futuwwa) and guilds, written in three different hands on two distinct types of paper; ff. 1-19 and those, 28 in number - they have remained blank - following f. 139, are distinguished by white paper and seem to have been added later to the original manuscript, ff. 20-139, consisting of light brown paper. A list of the titles of the included works is found on f. la. A signature of Tur[gu]d $eyb b. Hasan, with a seal, is found on f. 139a. The manuscript is briefly described (as ‘J’- later also as ‘JT’) by Taeschner in ‘Beitrage zur Geschichte der Achis in Anatolien (14.-15. Jht.)’, in Islamica 4 (1931), p. 38. Pencil lines in the text, probably made by Taeschner. (See for a similar miscellany Cod.Or. 12.427, above.) The manuscript contains two handwritten letters from Georg Jacob (1862-1937) in Kiel to Franz Taeschner, dated, respectively, 8 and 15 January 1929. In the first letter Jacob declares himself ready to lend the manuscript to Taeschner (see plate); in the second he informs Taeschner that he had sent the manuscript to him on the previous day, and asks him to insure it for 1000 marks, send a receipt and