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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.377, cont., 12.378)

calligraphic, vowelled nesih; headings, rubrics and borders in red; (oxidized) gold borders within black lines on ff. 2b-3a; a coarse headpiece with floral motifs in (oxidized) gold on f. 2b; completed by ‘Osman b. ‘Ömer b. Bekr Iraki on 18 Safer 1180 (26 July 1766); an owners’ inscription in idiosyncratic spelling of Fazillzade §eyb Yahya-oglu (?) §eyb Ahmed and Kiitfik-oglu §eyb Mehmed, water-carriers at the Zemzem fountain in Mecca, with the year 1209 (1794-5) occurs on f. la; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 54’, written by himself, is found on the same page; a piece of paper with notes on the title, copyist, date and purchase (from Nasrüllah, 1925) by Taeschner is enclosed in the MS.

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Literature: see Jan Schmidt, ‘Ottoman Hacc Manuals and the John Rylands Library MS Turkish 88’, in Culture: Unity and Diversity. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 12-14 July 1994 (University of Manchester), pp. 488-500.

Cod.Or. 12.378 Menasikii l-hacc t An undated copy of an anonymous manual for pilgrims. The title is mentioned in the colophon in f. 20a:4-5; another version of it, ‘Mendsik-i hacc-i serif, is found on the title page (la); in a heading preceding the text on f. lb, the, clearly