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

Title

Handbook for composing letters

Other related names

• Brown, John Porter, 1814-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/90486345)

Call number

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

Publisher

American Philosophical Society

Language

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Origin

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

• Watermarked European paper
   

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

• Deposited with APS by John Porter Brown 19 February 1836 (note in ink, f. 1r); formerly owned by John Porter Brown in Islāmbūl [Istanbul] (notation and signature in ink in Arabic, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Handbooks and manuals

Keywords

• Education
• Letter writing
• Turkish
• Ottoman
• Instructional materials

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1]v — [Handbook for composing letters]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• 1]r — Owner's note
• 1]r — Acquisition note in ink