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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.583, cont.)

the museum. (7) Two leather covers of a manuscript; the insides contain verses in Persian and an inscription of ‘Abdullah Efendi, owner of the mecnul'a. (8) A list (one page), according to a note by Taeschner, of manuscripts bought from Nasrullah Tabriz! in 1930, in the bookseller’s handwriting (see plate), 5 items. (9) A list of manuscripts (one page), 6 items, headed ‘Handschriften Prof. Kahle, Bonn' (written on the back-side of a part of a typed letter from Prof P[aul] Kahle to Taeschner, dated 18 October 1933). (10) Four items related to Mss. 114-5; a postcard from Dr. I[gnaz] Goldziher to Taeschner, Budapest, 14 October 1915, inquiring information about two figures occurring in a miniature [ofMs. 114] printed inDerlslam 6 (1916), p. 170: ‘Was stellen die Kerle vor und hat ihre Barhauptigkeit irgend eine besondere BedeutungT \ a note in Taeschner’s handwriting on Ms.Nr. 115, ‘Turk. Zunftenalbum ca 1825, gekauft von A. Prabstlian London Aug. 1924für £51-1-\ a postcard from General von Bötticher to Taeschner (at Paris), 24.3.1914; he thanks sender for the 1100 marks received for the ‘muhamedanische Handzeichnungen’ [Ms.Nr. 114]; a letter from P. Kahle to Taeschner, Giessen, 8.5.1915, thanks sender for the manuscript [of his article for Der Islam, cf. above] and discusses some features of the picture in Ms.Nr. 114 to be printed with it. (11) Three slips of paper with descriptions in Taeschner’s handwriting of manuscripts in his collection (among them, Codices Or. 11.390 and 12.416). (12) A printed book with a Persian text, divided into eight rawdas, without title, with copious glosses in Turkish by, probably, Sadik whose seal is printed on the first page; there is also a note in the same hand stating that he began (to read) the book on 5 Cem&iilewel 1269 (16 February 1853), and finished it on 5 §a‘ban (14 May) of the same year. (13) A collection of black-and-white photographs, picture postcards, and off-prints of objects preserved in the Islamic Department of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, the Arkeoloji Müsesi, Istanbul, and other museums, of various artefacts and