Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Treatise on composing letters

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 32
(New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13540660
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054927036
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_032.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13540660

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Ottoman with translations from Arabic; inserts in Persian laid in

Origin

Date

between 1775 and 1825?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

On writing (inshāʼ). It begins with an Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters (f. 1v-3r), followed by a tutorial on writing letters. The following types of letter are included: from inferiors to superiors (f. 10v-14r), letters home (f. 14v-17r), from a child to his grandfather (f. 17v-19v), from a father to a son (f. 20r-22r), from a son to his mother (f. 22v-24v), from a mother to her child (f. 25r-26v), petition addressing the Sultan (f. 27r-28r), an emancipation certificate (f. 28v-30v), and newspaper writing (f. 31r-34v); a short lesson on basic arithmetic follows (f. 34v-35r). Two inserts laid in: a telegraph receipt, and a sheet in nastaʻliq shikastah about accounting in Persian.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Some inconsistent paginations in Arabic.
   

Extent

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.

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.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Education--Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Letter writing, Turkish
• Manuscripts, Turkish

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Treatise on composing letters]