Subject
Documents, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Type
Book
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
240 separate items bound in 1 volume . Dimensions (leaf): 400 × 270 mm.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
Persian MS 913
Record ID
13789
Library Location
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester
Notes
This collection of letters and documents written in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Ternatean languages. encompasses correspondence spaning 20 Ramaḍān 997 AH (3 August 1589 CE) to 6 Jumādá II 1123 (22 July 1711 CE) that primarily pertains to several early orientalist scholars at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Most appear addressed to or sent by Jacob de Gool, known as 'Golius' (1596–1667) , as well as Tomas van Erpe, known as 'Erpenius' (1584–1624) . Another collection concerns early 18th-century Dutch soap merchant and resident of Acre, Paul Maashoek (d. 1711) . Early 18th-century scholar Johannes Johannes Wilhelmus Jacob Heyman (d. 1737) compiled the letters together in two scrapbook albums, with the companion volume, UBL Cod. Or. 1228 , now held in the Leiden University Library .
Koleksiyon
Persian Manuscripts
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