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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.383, cont., 12.384)

the author appear in a heading preceding the text (2b) and in the concluding distich (12b). The work was written in 1227 (1812) - this year is found in the final chronogram. No manuscripts seem to be documented but the work was already printed in 1265 (1848). A description of the contents is found in HOP IV, pp. 306-8. The endpapers contain various semi-literate annotations in black and red (la-2a, 13b), among them a list of ingredients for ma'cün, calculations, letter phrases (la); a besmele, a series of epistolary titles and compliments, (lb), prayer formulas and a list mentioning items of food with calculations (2a), the name of Zehra Aga Efendi, variably spelt (lb, 13b). Rebound in boards with brown linen backing and edges; glazed cream paper without watermark; (1)+13+(1) folios; 207x115 mm and 138x59 mm; 17 lines; catchwords; small ta'lik; headings and borders in red; gold borders within black lines on ff. 2b-3a; a simple headpiece with floral motifs in gold, yellow and orange and heading in red (see plate); without a date and the name of a copyist; a seal of es-Seyyid Mehmed ‘Atif occurs on f. 13b; the legend ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 63’, written by himself, occurs on f. 2a. Begins (2b, after a besmele)-. 3-i.c. jl>>- * tjj-ii-t ij-ddS j l>l® Ends (12b): 4ÜC, Cj jx. J * jij fiojLï \ rrv

Edition: Istanbul 1265. Literature: Inal, p. 750; Fahir iz, “Izzet Molla’, in El 2 .

Cod.Or. 12.384 Gendne-i raz *<ll*a*S An undated copy of a moralistic poem in mesnevi rhyme by Yahya Beg Dukakin- zade (d. after 982/1574-5). The title is found in f. 106a: 13; the name of the author is mentioned in various verses, e.g. in f. 5a:6. The poem is the fourth part of a quintet (Hamse) dedicated to Sultan Siileyman the Magnificent. It was written, according to the closing chronogram, in 947 (1540-1). The work, after