TURKISH. 195 



and removed the books to Antioch, where they remained until 

 her son succeeded her as Sovereign of Constantinople. Orders 

 were subsequently given for the library to be destroyed, but a 

 man named Ibrahim Ben Hailan, of the Zani faith, got hold of 

 some of the books and took them to Baghdad, where they 

 were translated into Syriac. " I procured these books," he says, 

 " and sought for somebody who understood them. Amongst 

 others came a man of the Uzlug Turkish tribe from the sea-shore. 

 The puny one knew all languages, and translated the book 

 from the Syriac into our language." Then follows the origin 

 of Falconry according to the ancient text. 



338. KiTAB MuKHTAS Dari H Sharcf ud Din Alp- 

 Arselan Garabli. a.h. 915. 



The Book relating to Hawks of Sharef ud Din 

 Alp Arselan Gardbli. a.h. 915 — i.e., a.d. 1509. 



This is No. 62 of Hammer Purgstall's Catalogue (p. xxxii.), 

 wherein only the Turkish title is given. His No. (>2, is the Baz 

 Nameh, or Book of the Hawk, of Mahmud ibn Muhammed ul 

 Barchini, of which the entire Turkish text is printed with a German 

 translation as above noticed. He omits the author's statement 

 that he is better known as " Katib Turk iy eh," or the Turkish 

 Scribe. 



In a volume of miscellanies preserved in the British Museum, 

 Add. MSS. 23,594, there is a Turkish treatise on Falconry 

 apparently of the eighteenth century. It consists of 84 folios, 

 and is described as : — 



339. A Treatise on Animals used in the Chase, 



viz., Hawks, Hounds, and Hunting Leopards ; their 



training and the treatment of their diseases. Translated 



from the Arabic by Murteza, known as Nazmi Zadeh 



with the heading Baz Ndmeh, the Book of the Hawk. 



The Turkish translator states that he wrote this version, 

 A.H. II 15 (a.d. 1703), by desire of 'Ali Pasha, Governor of 

 Baghdad. The Arabic text was contained in a recent copy of 



