Treatise on composing letters

Title:

Treatise on composing letters

Date:

between 1775 and 1825?

Description:

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.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Codices
Manuscripts
Manuals (instructional materials)
Insertions (Provenance)
Education--Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Letter writing, Turkish
Manuscripts, Turkish

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Provenance:

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Extent:

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.

Publisher:

Columbia University

Rights:

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Identifier:

MS Or 32

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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