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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.346, cont.)

Kashf az-junün V, p. 285). The treatise is divided into four chapters Cunvari) - die second begins on f. 27b (it is separately dated by the copyist in a colophon on . 45b - f. 46a is blank); the third on f. 46b and the fourth on f 53b A few marginal additions. The treatise is followed by an elaborate recipe and list of ingredients, written by the same copyist, for a medicinal paste recommended for the treatment of various eye diseases (78b-79a). Bound m brown leather with flap; glazed cream paper; the title of the original work is written on the bottom edge; 1+79+1 folios; 221x138 mm and 157x75 mm; 19 lines; catchwords; partly vowelled calligraphic nesih with siiliis elements- eadings, rubrics, Arabic quotations and borders in red; double borders on ff lb \ ?S’"T pleted hy ‘ Ömer b - Meymin at-Trabzom on Monday 22 Zf /- ka de 1188 (24 January 1775) - the second chapter had been finished in Sewdl of the same year (5 December 1774 to 3 January 1775); the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 19’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la; a pencil note with the year 1927 and the name Nasrullah is found on the inner front board. Begins (lb, after a besmele): u*jL- Cm o-U* MtiS jl ^ ja J,l UjS *4154^«ii uaij Ends (77b): ?*** dip ^,1 MJ+.' jUi. * *5 jaJj) m-sJj J . J .T"*. f* 1 r* ^cm^ j M*- 9 jü mL-JJI uU Ch SJ9* ^JIJLII cloLu! Colophon of a* second ^ ^ ^ 1 W,> ' Final colophon my.^* ^ ^ ^ *'♦“ idtLUi jyUi -j/l ^1 ^ j ^ J ^ ^ 4 *^1 ^ oUju o# dLM ^ a* 4 ** 1 f« i _>*J» aJ i>. <SjMI Sjj^I QijU Cm flteu hiLL, ^ ^L^ll t-ül 3 4iU j Ü+»UJ 3 C)UJ a.-, -.1 (Jj