[Treatise on composing letters]
by David Eugene Smith
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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.
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Education, History, Turkish Letter writing, Turkish Manuscripts, ManuscriptsPlaces
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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.
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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2018. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Ottoman with translations from Arabic; inserts in Persian laid in.
Paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.
Digitized. 2018 Columbia University Libraries committed to preserve
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