325

THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.440, cont.)

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^aljl jilj aXijjj jLi. AajaL tr.i.aLi la jXt 3J3 i (aiJ * LLiiUI jT dCiLal jT CUiLal ... The final chapter begins (p. 360, as in ‘All Bey’s edition, p. 269): jAiilS*!» fiUJI A-±c j*ai-a C>* f* JA*I uW J3I J*oj ^ jLj jA.iia)j) Aj J Aj Lairno a Jax .*« j It ends (p. 366, as in ‘AIT Bey’s edition, p.274): cr4t AjJtx. * Ji* 0 .ti ay.5 Cophon of the original copy (p. 367): i—iLtjJI .‘11 all j5-.t i * ljLb^JI u_>LU! i-. A>.l A-_ui tju.uaaJI L03J ÓJ j-i-c. 3 jLaS jS-tu-JI jLó-aj j^ui ^js Ijj>*J JjljiiHI CAS 3 ^Js i_oJI 3 Cl-J r

Colophon (ibidem):

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Catalogue entries: Götz II, 228; see also the introduction to Giese’s edition, where twelve MSS are described.

Editions: All Bey (Istanbul 1332); Friedrich Giese, Die altosmanische Chronik des ‘AsikpaSazade auf Grund mehrerer neuentdeckter Handschriften von neuem herausgegeben (Leipzig 1929); giffioglu N. Atsiz (Istanbul 1949, in Latin script). Translation: Richard F. Kreutel, Vom Hirtenzelt zurHohem Pforte, Frühzeit und Aufstieg des Osmanenreiches nach der Chronik "Dentkwiirdigkeiten und Zeitlaufte des Houses ‘Osman" vom Derwisch Ahmed, genannt ‘Afik-Pcqa-Sohn (Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1959). Literature: GOW, pp. 35-8; M. Fuad Köprülü in ÏA\ Franz Taeschner in Et 2 ; H. inalcik, ‘The Rise of Ottoman Historiography’, in B.L. Lewis and P.M. Holt, eds., Historians of the Middle East, pp. 152-67 (London 1962); V.L. Ménage,' ‘The Beginnings of Ottoman Historiography’, ibidem, pp. 168-79.