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Here we will finish our supplement with some few words on the Persian translation of 
the Derbend-nameh referred to. In our Preface ((. 3,B.) we have made mention of this 
version as far as our knowlege of the MSS. of the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of 
Sciences and of the Imperial Public Library allowed us. At the very time when the last 
sheets of my work were in the press I obtained one of those MSS. through the kind indul- 
gence of my learned friend, the Academician Dr. Dorn. It was the one belonging to 
the Museum of the Academy. The MS. is an elegant one, in #° min. written in Ta’ligk 
and contains 63 pages, every page containing 10 lines except the first and the last 
which have 8 lines each. The date of the MS. is 1141 (of the Hidjret). 
Im- my preface (see page xvi— xvu) Î endeavoured to prove that our version of the 
Derbend-nameh was a faithful translation of the Persian version. Now having been able 
to examine it more extensively and to compare it thoroughly with our version, we found: 
1) that indeed our Turkish version in many points bears great similitude with the Persian 
version in my hand; 2) that beginning from the account of the new discord between 
the Khagkan and Gkubad, when this last « sent the Khagkan's daughter inviolate back 
to her father» &c. we find sometimes considerable difference between the two versions. 
They consist of some additions and omissions in the one or the other, and of some 
change of order in the arrangement of the narratives. 3) Sometimes we find in the 
Persian version, narratives and hints which we do not find in our version, nor even in 
any other Turkish versions of the Derbend-nameh. #) Ât the end of the Persian MS. 
we read a catalogue of 40 saints buried in Gkirkhlar. This article begins thus: 
cs) ce y) Je IS De lori @lels «and the names of the above mentioned saints are 
as follows »; therefore we think that there must be a defect in this place of the MS. and 
that the words referred to are not the beginning of the article upon the saints. — All 
this leads me to suspend my opinion « declared » in the preface — though there I had 
strong proofs to maintain it, But 1 must confess that the 2 argument on which I founded 
my opinion then, still proves so strong and so striking (especially when we further exa- 
mine the style of the two versions) — that [ cannot consider it merely a matter of 
chance. — Upon the whole I still maintain the opinion that our Turkish version and 
the Persian one, by reason of the great similitude between them, represent one of the 
wo forms of the Derbend-nameh current in Aderbijän. Read ( 5 of our Preface. 
