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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.405, cont.)

Hafiz also induced him to return to Kefe in 985 before he was appointed, otherwise he would not have seen ‘an angel-like creature’ alive again (78b). This was his mother, as is clear from a fragment on f. 35b, whom he wished to bring to Istanbul. In another brief passage, the author found support for his retirement from the world in an (Arabic) line from a commentary on the L&miyat al-‘Ajam (by Tughra’ï, cf. GAL I, p. 247) (101b-102a). Occasionaly, the author mentions a source, as, e.g., in f. 65a: 19, the chronicler SelanikI Mustafa Celebi (d. 1008/1599, cf. GOW, p. 136), the Anwar-i Suhaylf by Husayn Wa‘iz Kashifi (d. 910/1504-5), in f. 100b: 10, Höca Sa'duddin Efendi’s (d. 1008/1599) Ottoman history [T&cu t-tevarfli] (105a, cf. under Cod.Or. 519), and kQzi ‘Abdullah, a son of the höca of Devlet Giray Khan (107a). The collection ends with a story on Mevlana Cinani of Bursa, a ‘benefactor’ of the author, whom the former had invited to become his secretary when he was appointed k&zT of Istanbul (109a- 110a). A few marginal corrections and additions; occasional lines and crosses in pencil. , . The work is followed (110b) by a brief anecdote (in Persian): friends of the late Monla TawfrqT found out what had become of him in the Hereafter from the text of a distich by Hafiz (five lines). It is followed by a brief description of what happened to ‘the writer’ (katibü l-hurüf, meant is probably Hüseyn-i Kefevï) in the year 997 (1588-9) when he suffered shipwreck on his way from Egypt; with many difficulties he reached the Island of Rhodes, where the surviving Muslims found a new ship waiting for them which brought them to Anatolia in two days (nine lines). Rebound in gold-embossed red leather with flap; glazed paper in varying shades of cream, pale blue, pink and yellow; ff. 47b-48a and 73b are marbled in various colours; slight moisture and worm damage in some places, mended afterwards; (3)+133 folios; 206x129 mm and 155x76 mm; 23 lines; catchwords; ta‘ltk\ headings, rubrics, quotations, lines, dots and borders, occasionally missing, in red; gold borders within black lines on ff. 3b-5a; gold dots on ff. 3b-4a, a headpiece with a gilt seal of an owner and floral patterns in black, gold, red and blue on f. 3b; completed by Mehmed b. Ahmed on 25 Muharrem 1010 (26 July 1601); seals of three different owners occur on ff. 3b, lib (with the legend el- ‘abd Mahmud’ and the year 1008/1599-1600), 18a (in red), 109b, 110a (with a tailed signature). The inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 86’, written by himself, occurs on f. 3a. Begins (3b):