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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.408, cont.)

(23b); Mehmed Es‘ad, idem (24a, 25a); es-Seyyid Mehmed §erif, idem (24b, 25b); E$refzade es-Seyyid Mehmediiddm at Aleppo (25b); a kazi of Aleppo, es- Seyyid Mehmed SaTd (26a); a kazi of Jerusalem, isma‘11 (26b); Mehmed Emin, first imam of the sultan [and] kail at Salonica (27b); Mustafa el-‘Ari (= el-GazI ?), first physician at the Palace (28a); es-Seyyid ‘All Mektübï (28b); es-Seyyid el- Hacc Mehmed, follower of the Mawlana (29a); the kazVasker of Anatolia [also Seyhiilislam] Mehmed Emin (29b, margin); Ibrahim Re§Id, with greetings from his daughter SaTde (30b); the miiderris Mehmed Zeynül'abidïn, known as hafld-i Celebizade (32a); el-Hacc ibrahlm a*- (?) (33a); es-Seyyid Ibrahim el- Hüseynï, küzt'asker of Rumelia (33b, 45a, 45b); es-Seyyid Hasan Behcet at Kiitahya (34a, 34a); Ibrahim Nedlm, kaziat Cairo (34b); el-Hacc Lutfullah ‘Arif (35b, 36a); Dervl§ ibrahlm Samih, with the year 1175/1761-2 (36b); Mehmed Sa‘Id (37b); Hasan Uulüsï (38a); es-Seyyid Mehmed ‘Arif Dürrïzade (40b, 41a); Ebübekir Aga-zade Mehmed Emin, kazVasker of Anatolia (45b, margin); the kd’immakam Mehmed (50b); the Grand Vizier Yüsuf Pa§a [in office 1200/1786- 1203/1789 and in 1205-6/1780-2, cf. SO 2 VI, p. 1754] (51b); Mehmed Sa'dullah, kazi in various places (54b, 55a, 64a). A series of, again undotted, signature formulas is found on ff. 60a-b (see plate). Extensive marginal additions are found on ff. 29b, 45b and 72a. Begins (15b): i>* jUjl |»J Aju ^ 4U 4lLS>Le # <uUa5^iM I—iLSj jjft ... a Liu jL ^JLc. >-.«*;> yjj jh i»lr»r j±uL^-« jJij-iï Lr kjü 3 Ends (81a): *4jL <lL-uL»-j j_«JjLi>l 3 Tdi)jLli_.ILc. olji 3 (jJj ijLajjj 3 >«l a5Lc. I 3

(3) ff. 81b-98a A collection of fetvas The collection, which lacks a title or the name of a compiler, contains rulings on legal matters by the seyhiilislams Dürrïzade Mustafa Efendi (81b-86b); es-Seyyid Mehmed Kamil Efendi (86b-87a); Ahmed Efendi (87a-88a); Dürrizade es-Seyyid Mehmed ‘Arif Efendi (88a-b); Mehmed Serif Efendi (88b-89a); Mehmed Mekkl Efendi (89a-b); Dürrïzade es-Seyyid ‘Ata’ullah Efendi (89b); PIrizade Mehmed Efendi (89b); Damadzade Feyzullah Efendi (89b-90a); Velïyüddln Efendi (90a-b); Mehmed Efendi (90b-93a); the müfti of Larende, Ahuned Efendi (93b-98a); and