COMPONENTS: Turkish folio manuscript on Russian watermarked paper.
NOTES: Unusual
ITEM ID: 409
Russian Copy of “Jewels of the Ocean”
DATE
Year: 1814
A Turkish folio manuscript on Russian paper – a unique example of a Ottoman literary classic (Jewels of the Ocean by Ahmed Bicon) copied in St. Petersburg on October 29th, 1814. The copyist could have either been a Ottoman diplomat or a Crimea or Volga Tatar. A waaf note on the colophon shows that by 1840 it was in Tatar hands in the small town of Chutay in modern day Tatarstan.
ARTISTS
Name: Ahmed Bicon
Type: Author
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