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Devlet-i Aliye sabık vezir kethudası Giritli Resmî Ahmet Efendi'nin telif buyurdukları münşeât mecmuasıdır.
1775-1801
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.
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- Publisher
- [between 1775 and 1801]
- Language
- Ottoman Turkish
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Item Summary
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.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Devlet-i Aliye sabık vezir kethudası Giritli Resmî Ahmet Efendi'nin telif buyurdukları münşeât mecmuasıdır.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 273
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/3484zr26q
- Publisher
- [between 1775 and 1801]
- Language
- Ottoman Turkish
- Date Created
- 1775-1801
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 61 leaves : paper ; 218 x 150 (135 x 70) mm. bound to 218 x 158 mm.
- 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".
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- 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.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 132
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e47919a1-d8db-4cf6-9c6b-b4b54dbfd818/manifest