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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.426, cont.)

to a kait of Jerusalem, 148b) and the unfurling of banners for a military campaign (to the agha of Janissaries, 152a-153a). Years mentioned range between [1] 192/1778 (148b) and [1]225/1810 (155a). The final, and most voluminous, series commences on f. 164a with the heading ‘buyruldi . Most of the orders which follow - there are also a few letters of different type added later, cf. ff. 191b, 192a, 193b, 194a - are preceded by extensive notes, written slantwise in red, on the addressee, the contents and, sometimes, with a date. The contents vary greatly, and range from a prohibition on the grazing of sheep in Muslim cemeteries (164b), the levying of rüsüm-i cülüsiye (168b), to an embargo on the transport of rice, coffee and soap to the Black Sea (199a). The years mentioned again cover a period between 1153/1741 to 1225/1810. The last series is followed by a memorandum (beyan-name) on Russian foreign policy - half a year earlier peace had been concluded between Russia and the Porte - by [the tez/dreci and later re’isülkütt&b Mehmed Sa‘ïd] Galib Efendi (d. 1245/1829-30, cf. SO 2 II, pp.544-5; E. Kuran in Ef) dated Safer [1]221 (April-May 1806, 202a-204b). Apart from full letters, or substantial parts of them, we find an epistolary phrase (first flyleaf, verso); six rhymed distichs and an administrative note with a calculation (la); a list of vilayets with markings of 'kul ve emr muhdfizasi’ and occasional numbers (headed ‘sadece’, 2b); the heading: 'mir-i mirani ve ibkasive Umerdya ve zeyV (3a); a series of epistolary phrases for letters addressed to high officials, appointed at the request of a vizier, or without them (four items, 3b); the heading 'ni$üncilik ve defterd&rlik ve sant ve salis vezirleri' (5a); epistolary phrases with red headings for various types of appointment (ten items, 5b-6a); a phrase from a letter concerning the appointment of Mehmed Pa§a to valt of Diyarbekir, and a line with place names and the year ‘24’ (7a); a crude pencil drawing with floral motifs (7b); a survey in red of Ottoman vilayets with the names of governors, dated 26 Muharrem (?) [1]221 (15 April 1806) (207b-210a); three documents issued to the kait of Mecca, Mevlana Ahmed Nürï Efendi b. isma'il el-istanbulf, on his appointment and (raised) salary of 150 akge daily, dated 1219/1804 (21 lb-212a); a survey of Ottoman vilayets with postscripts (zeyl) to be added to the letters of the ibka and tevecciih types addressed to local officials (213b-215a); a selective index for various type of letters found in the first series, mentioned above (216b, see plate); a fragment of a petition, requesting an appointment as apprentice (§dgird) at the rii ’üs-i hümayün kalemi (of the Porte) (217a); a recipe for blue ink, attributed to Bekir Efendi, a series of [career] ‘principles’ (ka'ide, four items, dated 4 §ewal [l]212/22 March 1798) and a series of six undotted signatures, partly blotted out (217b); a list of Ottoman sultans with years of succession and length of rule, up to Sultan Abdulmecfd [I],