Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 32

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6486

Shelfmark:

MS Or 32

Title:

Treatise on composing letters

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

between 1775 and 1825?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman with translations from Arabic; inserts in Persian laid in

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 35 foliated leaves : paper ; 257 x 185 (155 x 91) mm, bound to 257 x 185 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 7 slightly slanting lines (higher on the gutter end) with a column of text down the outside edge of the textblock. Catchwords on versos, lower left.
Script: Written in late ruqʻah in black and red; pointed, unvocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications.
Origin: Likely written in the late-18th or early-19th century.
Some inconsistent paginations in Arabic.
Shelfmark: MS Or 32.

Keyword:

History

manuals (instructional materials)

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

Insertions (Provenance)

Letter writing, Turkish

Education

Manuscripts

New York (State)--New York

Manuscripts, Turkish

1288-1918

Turkey

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604101

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604101_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library