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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.413, cont., 12.414)

Oriental style; glazed white to cream paper; (1) + 116+(1) folios; the outer margin off. 2 has been cut off; 187x133 mm and 143x81 mm; 21 lines; catchwords; small calligraphic nesih\ red headings, rubrics and lines; gold borders within black lines; a headpiece of an unusual design in gold, green, yellow, orange, blue as well as multicoloured marginal decoration occur on f. lb (see plate); completed by Hiiseyn b. Mustafa b. Hiiseyn known as Hacet?i-zade in the medrese of Mihallye at ‘Ayntab (Gaziantep) in the early forenoon of a Sunday in Zf l-ka‘de 1251 (February-March 1836); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 96’ is found on f. la. Begins (lb, after a besmele): pljVI j • ■ «I»_■ I«ui 3 > J lln üi *1 j a«> Ends (115b): ijtLifi <-■ v AijLiS aJL I jl^Lc.1 Unit JJJ jJ-ii3 tu 3 * • -“*j 4.a>-j uJLjlj *1)1 **>.j j3* 3 flÜ- Colophon (ibidem): J ..<II (jiaJI «juI (jJI jj II 3 >*oUL> cJi j~> * aJI j-ül' a JJ->- £ iLJLj «LI *Jbl a jlj ■»!■>,i j_<^ <t J) i)-' m> jiibirtii (jJ ó-‘ j^a 1 V 01 ■ << ^ .AII (jjj) j <lj.ll >i_i all Aaa jJloJI jjjS t_>I <*ij r a -iL a jL) jJI 3 L-aJI 3 J UJ '»*■>■ 3 aAtaJI ^ j ó-« A3-VI Catalogue entries: Flemming 382, Götz I, 218-9, and Sohrweide I, 125, where other MSS are mentioned. Edition: Istanbul 1256. Literature: cf. Flemming, p. 295.

Cod.Or. 12.414 Düstür el-viizera 0 j>N ■* An early 19th-century copy of, according to the introduction (lb-3a), a translation by a certain Pertev (cf. 3a: 1) of an Arabic book of advice for viziers by Abü 1- Hasan Mawardf [d. 450/1058] (cf. 2a: 14). The title is mentioned in f. 2b: 1-2 as well as on the title page (la), in a heading (2a), in the colophon (74a), and on the bottom edge. The original, which must have been the Qawanin al-wiz&ra, is not