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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.427, cont.)

it is followed on the same page by an inscription in a different hand by the katib, Molla Hasan el-Hacc Me§Inogh (?), that he had bought the manuscript from the estate of Mehmed Pa§a Selim Pa§a[zade] for ‘138’; an (awkwardly spelled) note dated 1128 (1715-6) on the Austrian campaign: the moving of the Islamic army to Belgrade and the appointment of San Ahmed Pa§a [a Bosnian] to beglerbegi of Rumelia (cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji IV, p. 10; 2 lines, slanting sikeste, 128b); another note in the same hand on the appointment of Ibrahim Pa§a to serdar in 1125 (1713, cf. Dani§mend, Kronoloji IV, p. 6), is found on the inner back- cover. The manuscript. (‘BT’) is succinctly described by Taeschner in ‘Beitrage zur Geschichte der Achis in Anatolien (14.-15. Jht.)’, in Islamica 4 (1931), p. 38. (See for a similar miscellany Cod.Or. 12.429, below.) The manuscript includes two typewritten letters and a postcard from Franz Babinger (1891-1967) in Berlin to Taeschner, dated, respectively, 3 January 1928, and 3 and 5 January 1929, mostly concerning the sale of the manuscript, apparently at Taeschner’s request as at the time he was gathering materials on Ottoman guilds. Babinger asked the price of 1700 dinars! 250 Reichsmark (cf. letter of 3.1.1928). In the last letter (5.1.1929), Babinger explained how he obtained the manuscript in Bosnia -1 quote the last part of the letter in full: "Ich habe diese HS im Sommer 1927 in Gomji Seher (d.i. obere Stadt), der Vorstadt von Banjaluka (Nordbosnien) urn einen erklecklichen Batzen erstanden, aber nicht von einem Gerber oder Debbagh-zade, sondem von einem Hodscha. Ich ahne nicht, woher er die HS hatte, höchstwahrscheinlich alter Familienbesitz. Ichsagte Ihnen ja schon hier, dass es sich urn ein Sarajevoer Zunftbuch handelt. Hübsch sind die Beglaubigungen durch den Richter von Sarajevo. Mehr weiss ich leider selbst nicht; ich habe sonst in Siidslavien keine weitere ahnliche HS aufgefunden. Soviel ist gewiss. Auch ist mir in Derwischkreisen kein futuwwetname begegnet. Ich habe mehrere Tekkebiichereien aufgekauft, aber nirgendwo befand sich eine ahnliche HS darunter.’ Babinger mentioned this acquisition in his “ASyq Pasas Gharib-name’ in Mitteilungen des Seminars fur Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin (1928) II (Westasiatische Studiën), p. 95n. On the inner front-cover is a note by Taeschner with the clause ‘erworben Jan. 1929 von Fr. Babinger...' The manuscript also contains a piece of paper, also in Taeschner’s handwriting, with quotations in Arabic script from three colophons.