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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.397, cont.)

The extension begins (23a:9) Jwlil >1 aJL-Ilj \1S ^ Ju.1 aISj Ends: 56b: ■**- «>»• * 42-*».j ..n Cj'j * J 1 Colophon (ibidem): 4 -"i»j>^*! iji cr* kill*<1/ jjju [erased] ... <_»L£!I <-■ \* V <ü_u/ (2) ff. 57a-84a Vesiletü n-necdt Jï mevlüdi n-nebi ‘aleyhf s-salat ö 3-LoJI 4_» 1 f CjL»üJI 2 l_. ,..J An undated incomplete copy of the popular poem in mesnevf rhyme in praise of the Prophet Muhammad by Stileyman Celebi (d. 826/1422), Imam at the Great Mosque of Bursa. The title 1 Vesiletü n-necdt’ occurs in f. 84a:3. The work, also simply known as Mevlid or Mevlud was completed in 812/1409. (For another copy and further references, see under Cod.Or. 12.395, above.) A few marginal additions. Begins (57a, as in Ate§’s edition, p. 92:3): ^ J ^ ■* * LSI 4j Ij I Ends (84a, as in Ate§’s edition, p. 147:60): 4jj I j s ) j and, in a different hand: u «j [?] *1/1 i*»J| *I/| A**JI aasUI (3) ff. 85b-97a A miscellany A collection of three text fragments. The first (85b-86b) contains the beginning of Süleyman Celebi’s Mevlid (cf. under (2), above). The fragment is headed ‘Kitab-i Vesiletü n-necdt ft mevdlid-i ejrefi l-mevcüddt'. A catchword on f. 56b is covered by a piece of paper used for mending the original paper. The second fragment (57a-90b), written in a slightly different hand and on different paper, contains verses in mesnevf rhyme from a similar work, but not the Mevlid. It is