Details

Subject(s)

• France—Description and travel [Browse]
• France—Foreign relations—Turkey [Browse]
• Turkey—Foreign relations—France [Browse]

Summary note

Report pertaining to Muhib Efendi's ambassadorship (1806-1811) from Selim III, Sultan of the Turks (1761-1808) to Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Catchwords; chapter headings in red. Fol. 1b-2a framed in gold along with gold dots and simple gold ʻunwan. Remainder of text framed in red. Last fol. blank.

Binding note

Contemporary leather binding with flap and asymmetric ebru decoration in green, orange, and ecru.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium, 2001/1/4 (2001-54).

OCLC

537819020

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