MANUSCRITS. - Lot 41

MANUSCRITS. Lot of five non-Arabic manuscripts, probably in Ottoman Turkish. - Ottoman (?) manuscript consisting of 10 ff. 21 x 13.5 cm), i.e. 16 numbered pp. of which 3 pp. bl. recto of the first f. includes a title, blue ink on very transparent paper. Copy of 1926 bearing the title 'Kurdistandeh Turk Siyāsatī'. Name of Ismail ... on the recto of the first leaf, most probably his signature at the end of the text. - 32 ff. (24 x 18.5 cm_) handwritten, 15 lines per page, in most cases but not at the beginning, spread over two columns (characteristic of the layout for verse), predominantly black ink, with red and blue for the titles. Margin notes and advertisements. Text in riqʿa. The last page appears to be in a different hand and in a different script (small marginal tears without missing). - Ottoman (?) manuscript in 27 ff. or 54 pages (22 x 13.5 cm), comprising 14 lines per page in nastaʿliq script, black ink, a few marginal notes (often dates) and advertisements. Probably a biographical work. - Ottoman (?) manuscript of 27 ff. or 54 pages (26 x 18 cm), comprising 18 lines per page spread (mostly) over two columns in the image of poetry verses in nasta'liq script, black ink (erasures, stains and tears). - Manuscript of 10 ff. or 20 pp. (36 x 22 cm), text of 24 lines per page copied in nasta'liq or shikastahi and respecting a layout characteristic of verse (in two columns).