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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.456, 12.462)

Cod.Or. 12.456 Turkish additions and annotations The manuscript contains a mid 17th-century copy of the famous ash-Shaqa ’iq an- nu'maniya, a biographical dictionary in Arabic of Ottoman ‘ulema and shaykhs, including the author’s autobiography, by Ahmed Ta§köprizade (d. 968/1561; cf. GAL II, p. 245, S II, p. 633; GOW, pp. 84-7; Flemming in Ef). It was completed by Mehmed b. ‘AIT es-STrüzT on a Wednesday morning in the middle of Zf l-ka ‘de 1060 (4-15 November 1650), cf. the colophon on f. 98a. An owner’s inscription with a seal of Mehmed Emin ‘AbdurrahTmzade, imam at the Mosque of Cezerf Kasim Pa§a [at Eyiib, Istanbul, cf. SCP III, p. 876] is found on f. la. Marginal additions in Arabic and, occasionally, in Turkish (partly quotations taken from the ‘Zeyl' (appendix) to the work, cf. f. 71b). Some Turkish notes are found on the endpapers: a list with titles and prices (in kuru§) with additional explanatory glosses (first flyleaf, recto)-, various distichs, a recipe headed ‘sirr-i ‘acib’ (4 lines), and a list of the demise and succession of a number of governors of Egypt, from the death of Muhammad ‘AIT Pasha (in [1]264/1848) to the succession oflsmaTl Pasha ([1J279/1863) (first flyleaf, verso); a chronogram (one distich) with the year 978 (1570-1) and an explanation (98b). The inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms.Nr. 36’ is found on the ‘title page’ (first flyleaf, recto); according to a separate note in his handwriting, the manuscript was purchased from Nasrüllah in Istanbul in the Summer of 1924.

Cod.Or. 12.462 A Turkish va/cf inscription The manuscript contains an early 17th-century copy of an Arabic dictionary of hadith, entitled al-Jdmi‘ as-saghtr min hadith al-bashir an-nadhir, by Jalal ad-DTn as-Suyütï (d. 911/1505), cf. GAL II, p. 147, No. 56, S II, p. 183. It was completed by Muhammad b. ‘Abd ar-Rahman [...] as-SadhilT al-Wafa on Monday 22 Cem&it l-ewel 1010 (18 November 1601), cf. the colophon on f. 531a. A Turkish vakf inscription dated 1090 (1679-80) by the Babiissa'ode agasi (chief black eunuch of the Palace), Ya'kflb Aga, is found on f. 531b (see plate); according to it the manuscript was donated to the school (dershqne) he had founded in Üsküdar and should be used in perpetuity by the students. Red seal