678 À KAZEM-BEG, 
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SUPPLEMENT 
TO $ Î AND 9 OF MY PREFACE TO THE DERBEND - NAMEH. 
About the time when the printing of my work was drawing to a close, I discover- 
ed a little Turkish Manuscript of the Derbend-nameh in the Rumantzoff Museum in 
St. Petersburg, which [ felt obliged to examine, to compare with my « select version» (see 
$ # of my preface) and others (sce À 3 there), and, if I found in it any thing wor- 
thy of notice, to communicate it to my readers. The very first object that attracted my 
attention, was a short preface in which I found à complete contradiction of all that the 
Academicians Bayer and Klaproth have related to us concerning the first appearance 
of the Derbend-nameh, its author &c. — on which I was induced to make some few ob- 
servations (see the ( 1 of my preface), although I was under the necessity of giving full 
credit to the assertion of Bayer, that the Derbend-nameh had been composed in the Turkish 
language by a certain Muhummed Awabi in consequence of an order given by one of the 
Gherai-Khans of the Crimea.» | 
{ will here communicate to my readers a full account of the MS. of the Rumantzoff 
Museum which in many points deserves attention and will explain in what consists the 
complete contradiction referred to. 
L. The MS. is in #° consisting of 42 pages of common blue paper; every page con- 
taining 15 lines, except the first page which has only 12. The handwriting is very bad, 
belonging to the Tartar style. It seems to have been copied by a Christian or rather by 
a Tartar living in Russia, for at the end of the MS. we read &b JS » Delué fl 
ç 
iv 1 ile (dar) dœut ss. (This Derbend - nameh was finished on thursday of Ma’tre 
1731. »A little farther, below the last words, we read: 4 ebole i r° «and in the 
month of Djema ...the year» ...! 
c 
! The wriling is so bad that one cannot make out the figures te 42 , If the year 1731 is right, 
then the corresponding Muhamincdan year is 1144 which bcgun 24 of June. Therefore if we take the SE 
