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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.427, cont.)

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Translation: of the first two chapters, by Taeschner in ‘Legendenbildung um Achi Evran’ (cf. below), pp. 68-71.

Literature: Franz Taeschner, ‘Legendenbildung um Achi Evran, den Heiligen von Kir§ehir’, in Festschrift Friedrich Giese (Leipzig 1941), pp. 61-71; by the same, ‘Akhi Ewran’, in Ef.

(4) ff. 114b-122a.

A treatise without title on the origin of the craft of tanning - the first tanner in fact was Adam (cf. f. 116b: 1) - and the customs of the tanners’ guilds (debbagan ocaklari), with two fragments in mesnevi rhyme. The work, according to the author’s colophon on f. 221b (quoted below), is dated Muharrem 1030 (November-December 1620), and written by the shaykh Mehmed e§-$efff el- HiiseynT knowns as A‘zamT b. el-merhüm Afci ‘All el-Evranl el-‘AbbasI who had retired to the bflnkah el-merkezi. The colophon on the next page, unusually, begins by praising the work for offering good counsel. The margin of f. 114b contains a similar statement by the copyist and a confirmation with a seal by a kazi, similar to that found on f. 114a (cf. under (3)). Begins (114b, after a besmele): j ajL»u-w jIa! j >411 aJ) | aJLla JaLÜI jLuiVI Jjl».^aJI <lu aa»JI Ends (121b): *Ait^ a iiij «ê jajjJLjL^jI jLc. La ^*» m 4> *i> jmi * i Elil»A j+mi aJLw jJI a AA >*ü J-S 3 aLj j¥l aJI j Aaaaa JdM ... «_■ j *■