İnşa-yi mergub - انشاى مرغوب

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7281
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1234
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 57 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 57 ff. Dimensions : 240 mm x 180 mm. Script : Nesih inclining to Divani.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a manual of inşa with various models, beginning with a list of the Arabic words most frequently employed. Many folios are displaced and some have been bound upside down: f 29r should follow 7v, 2r and 28v while ff 8r-14v should come after 1v; after 7v, 29r; and after 28v, 2r. Folios 43r, 54r, 46r and 51v are all blank. The manual was written and copied by Mehmet Vehbi in 1234 AH (1818-19 CE).

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For more information, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, p. 100.