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Collection ID: 0043 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Mss 494.9 T84 Handbook for composing letters

Title

Handbook for composing letters

Other related names

Call number

Mss 494.9 T84
(Philadelphia, United States, American Philosophical Society)

Publisher

American Philosophical Society

Language

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Origin

1775-1825
Place
[Turkey]

Summary

On writing (inshāʼ). An Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters, followed by short lessons on composing different types of letters; a short arithmetic lesson and a list of the month names in Arabic conclude the work

Notes

Watermark

Shield with crescent moon with face in profile (Abū Shubbāk)

Extent

40;

Foliation

Unfoliated

Support

Paper

Binding

Marbled paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.

Layout

  • Written in 7 slanting lines (higher on the gutter end) with a column of text down the outside edge of the textblock. Catchwords on versos, lower left. Ruled with a misṭarah.
  • Script

  • Written in ruqʻah in black and red; pointed, unvocalized
  • Provenance

    Subjects topical

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