Süleyman Fethi-Bek was a colonel in the Ottoman Turkish Army and the governor of Nablus (Syria) in 1911.
Summary note
An Ottoman Turkish verse chronicle of the Crimean War (1854-56), written in the late 19th century, probably by Süleyman Fethi-Bek. The manuscript gives information on British, French, and Russian marshals and officers.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Physical description: 17 lines per page in two columns; written in ruqʻah script in black on thin brown glazed paper. Catchwords; text framed in red. Short sections headed by a blank rectangle, filled in with "band-ı digar" through fol. 8. Corner of fol. 10 repaired; a few words smudged.
Binding note
Contemporary quarter-leather with cloth covers; title gold-tooled on spine.
Language note
Turkish in Arabic script.
Source acquisition
Purchase. AM 2006-45.
OCLC
62317413
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