red lines marking quotations
Turkey
16th Century
Source: Jan Schmidt, Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Recipe Details
Evidence
"glazed white paper with watermarks (anchor); 142 pages; 210×155mm and 145×95mm, varying; 13 lines; catchwords; nesiᄧ; red lines marking quotations"
Remarks
The paper features a specific anchor watermark, commonly associated with European paper exported to the Ottoman market. The manuscript Acad. 140 is a commentary on Saȁdĩ’s Gulistān by Maᄧmũd b. ȁOs̱mān (p. 191). The cataloguer notes it is bound in embossed dark brown leather with blind tooled insets (p. 192).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
watermark analysis
visual inspection
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typeglazed white paper with watermarks (anchor)
ColorWhite
RegionTurkey
Approx. Year1550
Source Information
AuthorJan Schmidt, Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands
CollectionIstanbul
Language
N/A
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