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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 12.583, cont.)

the Arab alphabet and samples of Arabic and Persian texts, mostly in Taeschner’s handwriting (7 items), as well as a transcription of poems by Sultan Veled (typescript, 3 pages); a large collection of texts in various alphabets, mostly Old Turkish Runic inscriptions copied by Taeschner. Or. 12.583h Three cardboard boxes with photographs: (1) positive, black-and-white, of Istanbul MS Fatih 2557, ff. 159b-256a, a copy of Giil§ehrfs Mantik at-tayr, (2) negative black-and-white, of Istanbul MS Be§ir Aga 451 A, a part of Evliya Qelebi’s Seyahatname, Vol. VII, ff. 40-101 (see also under d, above; a label in fin-de-siècle style of the firm of Sébah & Joailler, photographers in Istanbul, is pasted on the box); and (3) positive black-and-white, of Istanbul MS Arkeoloji Miisesi No. 236, Gül§ehrï’s Mantik at-tayr, ff. 1-154 (see also under d, above). Or. 12.583i A. A box with photographs and papers. (I) An envelope with, mostly, letters with the inscription ‘Briefe u.a. (Schriftstiicke) von Orientalen’ in Taeschner’s handwriting. The envelope contains seventeen original Turkish letters addressed to Taeschner and two sheets with Turkish phrases in the form of a conversation between a traveller and a hotelkeeper, headed 'otelde muhdvere’, with a note by Taeschner: 'türk. Konversationsprobe geschr. v. Ali Bey, Lektor a.d. Univ. Giessen, 1916'. The letters are the following: I. Eight letters from Nasrullah Tabriz! at Istanbul (see on him the introduction to Chapter Two) 1. Undated, 1913. The letter, a folded sheet, two and a half pages of text, contains a reply to a card from Taeschner. Sender reiterates Taeschner’s intention to undertake a tour of Anatolia with a young Ottoman engineer. He recommends a trustworthy person called Mi’mar Kemalüddïn and promises to sort out possible difficulties after Taeschner has arrived. T understand that you will come in the autumn of 1914, so next year. I am at your service...’ Sender promises to dispatch a copy of Hadikat el-cevdmi‘ for Dr. [Georg] Jacob to Berlin as well as some unbound quires of [the latest edition of the Seyahatname by] Evliya Celebi