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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.384, cont.)

a series of introductory chapters (2b-20a), is divided into forty ‘discourses’ (makale) on moral precepts and rules of conduct, each followed by a ‘story’ (hikaye). One leaf (4 folios) seem to be missing in the first quire of, in this manuscript normally five folded leaves, between ff. 3b-4a; the catchword on f. 3b is wrong, that on f. 9b is lacking. The endpapers contain various notes, among these ownership markings (cf. below), pious phrases in Arabic and Turkish, among them a creed formula (la), a song (nine distichs, with the refrain 'gel kuzum aglama vazgel pinden', lb), a verse in Persian (two distichs) - it occurs twice on f. 2a - and two Turkish distichs (2a, 3a).

Bound in brown leather; the outer covers are covered with embroidered cloth, striped white and red, and adorned with varicoloured floral and geometrical motifs; glazed cream paper (watermarks: clover, six-pointed star, crescent); the paper offf. 1-10 has been mended in various places; (1)+108+(1) folios original numbering 4-100 and 1-8; 198x125 mm and 120x54 mm, varying; 15 lines; catchwords; regular small ta 'lik, coarser on ff. 3b-10b, 101a-102b; nesih with siiliis elements on f. 94a-b, 97a-100b and 103a-107b; headings in red’; double red borders on ff. lla-61b, 9b-100a, 105b-107b; single red borders on ff. 62a-99a 101a-105a; black and red borders on ff. 3b-10b; multiple red, black and green borders on f. 3b; a simple geometrical headpiece in red occurs on the same page; without a date and the name of a copyist; owner’s inscriptions of ‘Abdulvahid (la), the hatib es-Seyyid Mehmed Husrevi, with the date 1 Cem&zTs-sanT 1169 (2 February 1156, ibidem), Molla ‘Ömer b. Halil Efendi (2a), Mustafa b. Velïyüddïn b. Murad and five seals, one in red but mostly invisible by a paper strip (3a); oval seals with the legend Halil ‘zi-makbulan-i dergah’ are found on ff. 3a, 17b, 18a, 21a, 25a, 29b, 30a, 83a, 84a, 89b, 90b, 99a and 108b (with transcription of legend and year 1106/1694-5); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 64’, written by himself, occurs on f. la. Begins (3b): olj j >ui Aia-I * 4JJI jumj all J Ail» »aL>. Ends (107b): ' ' “ * * u£j>ui aliI üii j| A | jiSjS Colophon (in a different script, ibidem): I» j-l.ti aJjl aÜ, lii, £ jlj Catalogue entries: Götz I, 210-1, and Sohrweide II, 251, where other MSS are