Erlangen Manuscript () is a

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dated between 1716 and 1733 that contains one of the earliest written collections (217 songs) of

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written in the

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. The unnamed author wrote the manuscript for the Austrian military commander

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, a governor in Habsburg-occupied Serbia. It was discovered in 1913 by the

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Elias von Steinmeyer in the University Library in

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and studied in depth by Gerhard Gesemann who used it for his

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in 1921. It was first published to the public in

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in 1925. The Erlangen Manuscript is mixture of

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and

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songs. Estimates of the number of Muslim songs vary between 36 and 46.

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