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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.341, cont.)

A few interlinear and marginal corrections by the copyist. Various scribblings, mostly illegible, are found on ff. 150a (margin), 150b (a crude table for memorizing the numerical value of letters which consists, mostly, of a series of four-letter words) and on the flyleaves. Bound in dark brown leather with flap, crudely embossed with lines and small rosettes; glazed whitepaper; the title is written on the bottom edge; (1) + 150+(1) folios; 228x140 mm and 140x80 mm, varying; 12 lines; catchwords; bold, partly vowelled nesifi; headings, rubrics, lines, dots and borders in red; completed by Gulam (?) ‘AIT(the somewhat puzzling rhymed colophon actually has »MJu) in, probably, 1029 (1619-20) at Berkof?e (Benkovac, Croatia); a statement that the book had been made a vakf for the souls of ‘Arif Efendi and Mustafa Efendi is found on f. la (cf. below); various seal imprints are found on the first flyleaf (verso); la (with the legend Mehmed); 41b and 150a; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 11’ by the owner himself occurs on f. la; a pencil note with the year 1927, probably by Taeschner, is found on the first flyleaf (verso). Begins (lb, after a besmele): UK.. fbVI 1*1 ^ bits» j 3 jUsiU LIa* ^aJI <b jl**JI Us 4 J-u/4 LSI 3 t'lolj LUI |*_I F» f 4JI ü.« j AialS 4j Lu J aJLc. J . ■*. I . Jjl ó_. t oljl 04^0 1 UULI Cj jLx 4 iAiA. Us ^ _,I'M ... o; 1 u «S Ends (150a): (jl i * 1 r a K.>iJ V jl j 4j «A-4J4 fjj I «lx all *l.r. Us jfllb I j ... Usij fljS .»l>3» ail 0-^>JUaJI jij** yj 4JLUSJ Colophon (ibidem)-. I 4 I» I» [^] • V ^ aim a Us iAu«j <£■» ***1i [?] Ju fiU* .«JLsJI «uU Copyist’s verses (ibidem): J**’ oS * J>*U J4J4j iJjjjl jA)Li 3 l Cy ^ ^ 4 (jJUs «ill lij .u >■ * 4-4 JjUai- jj ■■ a As I U»»