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THE TAESCHNER COLLECTION (Or. 12.441, cont., 12.448)

(15) f. 141a A medical prescription for a purgative potion, based, according to the heading, on the Mendfi'u n-nOs by Nida’I [d. 975/1567-8], hekimbayi of Sultan Siileyman [in fact: of Selim II]. See for the author and his work: ‘OM III, p. 239; Götz II, pp. 385-6.

Bound in lightly embossed, dark brown leather; glazed cream, occasionally yellow and yellowis-green, paper; 141 folios; 203x130 mm; text surface and number of lines, sometimes written slantwise, varying; occasionally vowelled nesih of varying format, from crude and almost illegible, to calligraphically accomplished; ocaasional red borders, headings and rubrics; for other data, see above; the inscription ‘Franz Taeschner Ms. Nr. 142 (erw. I. 1933)’ is found on f. la.

Cod.Or. 12.448 A miscellany The volume comprises two main texts, both popular me^nevCs in Persian (1), ff. lb-111a, the Bust&n by Sa'di (d. 692/1292, cf. R. Davis, ‘Sa'di’ in El 2 ); (2) ff. 11 lb-116a, a fragment from the beginning of the Pandnama attributed to Farid ad-DIn ‘Attar (d. after 586/1090, cf. B. Reinert in Encyclopaedia Iranica); and (3) , ff. 116b-137b, a complete copy of the same. The margins contain Turkish texts related to these main texts (cf. below). None of the texts are dated. They were possibly copied by one scribe. The ‘title page’ (la) contains various poems attributed to Jam!, among them a chronogram on the conquest of Baghdad. Two owner’s seals of Seyyid Ahmed Behcet, with the year 1204 (1789-90), are found on f. la. An owner’s inscription of Hasan, follower of el-Hacc ‘Osman Zekerlya occurs in the lower margin of f. 111a. (4) ff. lb-111a (margins) §erh-i Bustan £ j-i A copy of a commentary by Mevlana Mustafa who wrote under the pen-name of