Namık Kemal's Tahrib-i harabat, together with his two letters to Ahmet Mithat regarding the latter's Üss-i inkılab.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
20 lines per page. Written in a small, casual ruqʻah in black ink. Cream wove paper.
Origin: Only text 2 has colophon: copied by Mehmet Ata and completed on the 8th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah '96 (1879). Texts are written continuously, in the same hand and on same paper.
Explicit: [تخريب خرابات] وهر حالده امر وفرمان حضرت من له الامر كدر -- [ادباى عصرمزك] سزك ايجون بر بيوك بختيارلق اولور افندم 12 رمضان 95
Binding note
Quarter leather binding with red leather on spine and black grained paper over pasteboard on covers. Gold fillets and rolls on spine. Pastedowns in cream paper. Label on upper cover: "Tahrib-i harabat".
Language note
In Ottoman Turkish.
Contents
1. fol. 1b-46b: Tahrib-i harabat. A criticism of the first volume of Ziya Paşa's anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish poetry.
2. fol. fol. 47b-62b: Kemal Bey'in Ahmet Mithat Efendi'ye Midilli'den mektupları. Two letters, written on 24 August and 13 September 1878, from Namık Kemal to Ahmet Mithat regarding the latter's opinions expressed in his Üss-i inkılab.
Provenance
Ownership signature in the name of Akif es-Selânikî, dated '296 (1879) on fol. 1a.
Other title(s)
Kemal Bey'in Ahmet Mithat Efendi'ye Midilli'den mektupları.
Üdeba-yi asrımızın yegânesi olan Kemal Bey'in müverrih Ahmet Midhat Efendi'ye menfası olan Midilli'den gönderdiǧi birinci mektubudur.
ادباى عصرمزك يكانه سى اولان كمال بكك مورخ احمد مدحت افنديه منفاسى اولان مدللودن كوندرديكي برنجى مكتوبيدر.
OCLC
156822261
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