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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.407, cont., 12.408)

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Cod.Or. 12.408 A miscellany The manuscript contains three undated works, all written by the same copyist. The title page, f. la, contains a few pious phrases in Arabic, among them twice the sentence «id ó* pjSJI 3 o^W- (1) ff. lb-15a Miinje’at-i NabC 1 A fragment of a collection of (model) letters, or only parts of them, by Yüsuf Nabï (d. 1124/1712). The introduction and a part of the letters are missing in this copy (cf. for a detailed description of a complete copy, Götz II, pp. 273-4.). The title is mentioned in a colophon on f. 15a. The letters, complete or fragmentary, are, with the exception of the first item, preceded by headings of varying length with, mostly, indications of genre, status (rank) and name of the addressee, and the occasion of despatch. We find introductory phrases in elaborate rhymed prose (lb-5b); a letter of congratulation to a vizier of the dome on his appointment (5a- 6a), with proposed marginal addition (der kenar, 6a-b); a petition to a grand vizier (6b-7b), with marginal addition (7b); a letters of thanks occasioned by the receipt of a horse, bred by the muhafiz of Aleppo, Mehmed Pa§a, and received from the sender’s patron, the Vizier ‘All Pa§a (7b-9a, 10a-12a); a request to the same vizier (9a-10a); letters on private affairs to my son Osman Beg, emirülhüccac at Cairo (12a-13a, 14b-15a), to the kethiida ‘Abdullah, janissary officer at Cairo (13a-b), to the odaba^i el-Hacc Mehmed, an officer of the ‘azeban of Egypt (13b), to the kethiida el-Hacc ‘AIT, member of the same corps (13b-14a), and to Mehmed DervT$ Beg, defterdar at Cairo (14a-b). Most letters of this copy do not seem to be mentioned in Götz’s description. Begins (lb):