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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.425, cont.)

Literature: 'OM I, p. 214. The treatise is followed by further text fragments: three lines in bold calligraphy (51a); two distichs in Persian forming a question posed by [Shah] Tahmasb, and answered by [Sultan] Selim [I] (51b); a copy of a letter from Sultan Siileyman to [Shah] Tahmasb (51b-52a); two Arabic fragments on hadith, taken from a work entitled Mushkildt (52a); a distich (52b); various verses and verse fragments in Persian and Turkish by §emT and Nak§I (53a); a quatrain and four distichs in Persian (55a); a kit‘a in Persian (three distichs, 55b); a fragment from a commentary, §erh-i Dtvdn-i ‘Alib. Tdlib, by Mustaklmzade Sa'duddm Siileyman Efendi [d. 1202/1797-8, cf. OM I, p. 168] (57a-59a); a kit'a in Persian and miifred in Turkish, by Figanl (58b); a müfred in Persian and a Turkish distich (59a); two lines: ‘bilem [?] dersen bu ism-i nazini/ gika Hiiseyn iginden erba'iri (61a); a prayer prescription for a woman who is experiencing difficulties in child birth (62b); Arabic text fragments, accompanied by a series of glosses on Arabic words and expressions (63b-64a); a Persian distich in bold script (64a); glosses to Arabic words and expression, based on [the dictionary] as-Sahdh (64b); a gazel by Dürrï (69a); a fragment in Arabic from a work entitled Tafstr Surat al-Falaq (69b-75a), with glosses, partly in Turkish, on f. 70b; a Persian distich in bold script (70a); two tattered pieces of paper with texts in Turkish are found between ff. 70b-71a; an Arabic text on hadith, with marginal corrections (75b-78a); an Arabic text, based on a tafsir (79b); two quotations in Arabic from a work entitled Bustan al-'Arifin (80a); a story, incomplete, on Be§Ir £elebi of Konya, headed Risale-i Edreniye (80b-82b); an Arabic aphorism in bold script, preceded by the Turkish phrase ‘hiïkemd-i ‘Arab ederler ki’; four distichs in Persian and Turkish (83a); a gloss on the meaning of al-ghayb, from a commentary by Ibn al-Malak; a poem (ildhi, eight distichs) (83b); a chronogram on the death of Kürümï Mehmed Efendi, sadr of Anatolia; a chronogram on the death of a chicken, dated ‘93’ (the name of the author is illegible); six Arabic lines from a Kitab al-Hajj (84a); a poem, all hemistichs of which end in -an (begins: 'kocasiz iken oldi bu ‘alem bana zinddn/ fimdi bir Tiirk’e varuban i$im oldi dhla efgan’); a story on three travellers (84b); two quatrains and a distich; a note on ‘Arab ‘All with the date 12 Rebi'ü l-ewel 1164 (8 February 1751) (85a); two stories on the poet Abü al-‘Ayna and ‘Umar, headed ‘Hikdydt letd’ifmin keldmi l-bulagd', quoted from a work entitled Cdmi u l-h.ika.ydt (86b-87b); a quotation from a commentary, §erh- i Ebced, by the late Sürürï Efendi (87a-b); a series of Arabic seal inscriptions, written by the copyist (88a); a series of Arabic quotations from, among other texts, the Usui at-tawdrikh and the work of as-SuyütT (88b-89a); a poem (song)