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Title

Kitāb nafīs yufṣaḥu fīhi ʻan al-lughah al-Turkīyah.
كتاب نفيس يفصح فيه عن اللغة التركية

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 355
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13556554
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056195509
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_355.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13556554

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Turkish

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Turkish grammar explained in Arabic, covering the imperative (al-amr), negative imperative (al-nahī), simple past and past perfect (al-māḍī), present tense (al-muḍāriʻ), and verbal nouns (ism al-fāʻil), before proceeding to the construction of simple sentences and additional suffixes.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from opening page (f. 1r) and introduction (f. 2r).
   
• Includes catchwords, lower left.
   
• Watermarks are a double cross.
   

Extent

58 leaves : 166 x 121 (130 x 70) mm, bound to 165 x 134 mm

Support

Laid paper with watermarks

Binding

Brown leather with central toronja and flanking palmettes set against a background of blind tooled X's described by a three-by-four grid. Includes an abbreviated envelope flap.

Layout

12 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Turkish language--Grammar
• Turkish language--Grammar, Comparative--Arabic
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Instructional materials
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Kitāb nafīs yufṣaḥu fīhi ʿan al-lughah al-Turkīyah