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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.423, cont.)

gurre-i Muharremii l-haram sene sills ve mf’e ve elf)-, 22b (a table indicating the number of Mccer-carrying seyyids in each kaza of Rumeli, 32 entries); 26b-52b (an alphabetically ordered survey in two columns - two pages are reserved for each letter or combination of letters, indicated in red at the top of each verso side - of local officials per kaza, probably the kassams, appointed during the years 1103-10 (1691-9), from Aya§ to Hezargrad; most recto sides of each folio have been left blank; the entries are crowded with interlinear and marginal additions in the smallest possible script and some entries show up to nine subsequent appointees - a typical (and the first) entry reads (26b): ‘kazü-i Ayd§ es-Seyyid ‘Ali Qelebi evdyil-i §a ‘ban sene [1J106' - ff. 52a and 52b were later also used for other annotations, cf. below); 54b-79a (a section with another series of alphabetical headings in red from harfu l-elif to harfu l-ya, but the pages were mostly left blank or used for non-administrative notes; administrative entries, partly blotted out (on 54b, 57b, 60b, 61b, 63b, 65b, 68a, 70b, 72b, 75b), are similar to those found in the first series and concern appointees for the year 1110/1698-9); 79b (financial notes for the year 1110 concerning vakfs founded in Istanbul for the benefit of three ladies: Sittï, tjadfce and Bilkfs (Jatun, by ‘Abdullah Celebi); 80a (similar notes concerning a vakf in the kata of ïnegöl founded for the benefit of Hüccetüllah and others by el-Hacc Mehmed, years 1107 to 1110); 122b (lists of names, some of them kassams, with two lists of figures (probably amounts of money received from them), totted up to the total amounts of 5564 and 4700); 123b-131b (a list of place names and functionaries, possibly kassams, with dates of the years 1110/1698-9 and 1111/1699-1700, and occasionally with numbers added in red); 132b (a survey of revenue received from persons and institutions (vakfs) dated 1 Rébï'il l-ahir 1111 (26 September 1699) - the first entry reads ‘ez Husam Efendi/ yevmi 15/ft sene 450 - followed by a list of expenses, for salaries, among other things); 133a (two entries concerning vakf transactions, same month; the second entry contains the names of Husam Efendi and ‘Abdullah Qelebi); 133b (an inventory of goods left at the storeroom of Mehmed in the Bezdristan-i ceded of Medina by isma‘11 Efendi, Haccf Bekta§ and Molla Mehmed, partly in red); 134a (an inventory, defter, of goods sold, with prices: theakges given to es-Seyyid ‘Abdurrahman and ‘Abdulkerïm’, followed by a list of names); 134b-135b (inventories with series of goods, names and prices; Haccf Bekta§ Aga, to whom the goods had been given, is mentioned in a heading on 134b; the years 1104/1692-3, 1111/1699-1700 and 1112/1700-1 are mentioned on 135b); 137b (an inventory of costs incurred by [our] patron, veltn- ni‘m[et], by Haccf Bekta§ during the journey to Medina, Rebt'ü l-ahir 1111/ September-October 1699); 138b-141a (a series of four receipts (hiiccets) for