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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.387, cont.)

kaside in praise of the muhafiz of Hamadan, ‘Abdurrahman Pa§a (54a-b); a poem in mesnevf rhyme in praise of the §eyhtilislam ‘Abdullah Efendi (54b-55a); a kaside with a description of the miihiirddr (grand vizier, 55a-b); a kaside with a description of Mansürïzade Efendi (55b-57a); tahmises on the mtmiye kaside by Nef‘f in praise of Sultan Ahmed [III] (57a-62a), on a kaside by Bala (62a-63b), on a gazel by the same (63b-64a), and on a gazel by Neff (64a-b); a Persian quatrain headed ‘tadmin-i ‘UrfT (65b); 56 gazels, in divan sequence from f. 66a (65b-78a); fifteen quatrains (78b-80a); 49 müfreds (80b-83b); and 14 chronograms (84a-91a). A few marginal additions, most extensive in f. 73b (a gazel by Münïf added by the copyist).

Begins (30a):

^ jLi jL»- tjl lr»lm Cj joa». (j2oLLu/

JtljU* jj tjb (»-»j uui* j a Li

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Ends (91a): ■ - t»l JLaS LiL * aüjjolü Qijlj ^LjjL 1 o ajj^l j>L I; J * Aj^l

(5) ff. 94a-99a A collection of letters It contains the same letters as found in Cod.Or. 12.385, above; these are a letter in mesnevirhyme (mektiib-i manzüm) recommending a certain Kara Biligic Höcasi Haccf ‘All to the Porte (94a-95a); a poem of three distichs headed 'ahvdl-i evsaf-i ‘Acem’ (95a); a complimentary letter to the Sultan, including a gazel and preceded by a rhymed distich (95b-97a); two model petitions - names are all rendered as ‘fulan' - for obtaining a mülüzemet for a student (97a-b); a letter in which a courtier and friend of the (deceased) author alludes to the literary defects of a quatrain sent to the Sultan (98a-99a); and another petition for a mülüzemet (99a).

*** Bound in brown leather, gold bands at the edges; glazed cream paper with watermarks (crown, LANGUEDOC, 1742); 100 folios; 213x145 mm and 154x76 mm; 15 lines; catchwords; ta'lik; headings, rubrics, borders and Arabic quotations in red; gold borders within black lines in ff. 2b-3a, 65b-66a; headpieces with