Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal correspondence [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of correspondence of Ahmet Resmî Efendi. The main text ends on fol. 49b (see explicit). To this is attached on fol. 51-61 a collection of anonymous letters, a sampler, written on a different paper but in a very similar hand and style as the main text.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex (see contents below).
• Title from fol. 1a.
• The ms. dates between 1775, which is the latest date on the letters, and 1801, an ownership date (see ownership statement below).
• 17 lines per page. Written in a small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red for rubrication. On fol. 1b-2a the text is inside a frame outlined in red and black ink. Fol. 1a has a simple head piece, roughly drawn in several shades of purple watercolor with some gold. On fol. 2b- 16a the text is inside a single line frame in black. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with a green hue (the paper of the additional text at the end is cream with frame ruled margins). The text is interrupted from fol. 39b-41a: fol. 39b-40a have verses of poetry added in a later hand and fol. 40b-41a are blank.
• Incipit: دولتلو رسمى احمد افندى افندمز حضرتلرينه عثمان پاشا حضرتلرينك دفتردار ... يازيلان مكتوب صورتيدر سنه 1187
• Explicit: ومكتوم وحجت قاطعهء حياتى محصى ومحتوم اولمغين

Binding note

Dark blue glossy paper embossed in a flower pattern covering an original binding in paper and leather. Envelope flap. Endleaves in green tissue paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership statement on fol. 1a in the name of Ali Rıza ibn Süleyman, dated 21st of Ramaḍān 1215 (1801), and accompanied by his stamp.
• Ownership statement on fol. 1a in the name of Mehmet ... [?], a grandson of Şerif Paşa [?], accompanied by his stamp.
• Slip enclosed inside the lower cover: "Purchased from funds given by the Grant and Carnegie Foundations".

Other title(s)

• Munşeât
• منشآت

OCLC

182747473

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