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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.350, cont., 12.351)

by a poem in mesnevC rhyme on al-Maturïdï. The poem begins (23a): |*L *4L_> 013 I j .aJ 3 I nib * |aL«I a -**•■ ■■■ Jjb I ..\l ï~ f | The treatise begins (23b, after a besmele): J4XI ÓJ A*»** ... tjj 6J üUai «J +ü>* jjj tf jUI ^ aj U j>-slL* !»UI ij j '■>_■ ni~ ... . .in Ends (42a-42b): Js)-« »>hl Ólo AitUJjl jjl jii 41)3^*. >J< ju-i C_ukl3^ jVjl oAii»- JLlSI Author’s colophon (42b): A»Lit L^idl U-Ü3. JjUAÜ JJ J*ij ^ I a*» *■•»> -uic. J3~*U ^1 c^Jt, itJjl jLiu, ^V 3 I J*L>. aU oJ Ajlit i'±Lt L*aJI j JaI pi ajj^l J u-Jbib» J*~**s*j*>* jl>* ■*»> J-asjlijj-i JiLuJ*óü»l >ULS (•iLaJI i ... ^^1 ^rj3 4*SjS *aJLmj # ^iiJI <lUI aJ^j i*» o4i <^J3 U pljill 4JI ^Ic 3 ^bVI (jlt Literature: GAL I, p. 195, S I, p. 346; W. Madelung in Ef. ♦♦* The MS is bound in soft cardboard covered in green and white marbled paper with a brown leather backing; glazed cream paper with watermarks which contain the letters CSM; 42 + 1 folios; 204x140 mm and 145x70 mm, varying; 21 lines; catchwords; rik‘a\ without date and name of copyist; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 26’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la; a note by Taeschner on the titles, contents and the remark that the MS was bought from Nasrüllah in 1925, is written on a separate piece of paper found in the MS.

Cod.Or. 12.351 Mün?e ’at-i selatin o 1». *-■ T An incomplete, early 17th-century copy of a collection of official letters by Fendun Ahmed Beg (d. 991/1583), an important Ottoman official who held the