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    • Author/Creator: 'Alī Rıżā' Paşa.
      علي رضا پاشا
    • Title: Mir'atü'l-Cezāyīr.
      مراَت الجزاير
    • Published/Created:Ottoman Empire, 1880-1899.
    • Physical Description:1 item (iii + 145 leaves + vi) : paper ; 260 mm x 170 mm
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    • Notes:Title assigned by cataloger.
      Romanization supplied by cataloger.
      Layout: Single columns of 11 lines. Catchword on each verso.
      Script: Naskh.
      Decoration: No decoration.
      Binding: Half-bound in dark brown leather, green bookcloth over paper pasteboards.
      Manuscript foliation, in a hand later than that of the text, starts at head of text with f. 1. Modern foliation begins at table of contents, with modern f. 5 corresponding to former f. 2, modern f. 6 corresponding to former f. 3, and so on.
      Contemporary annotations containing Arabic prayers on recto front flyleaf.
      Accompanying material: dentelle (1 piece).
      In Ottoman Turkish.
      Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
      Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
    • Access and use:This material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript, on paper, of 'Alī Rıżā' Paşa's Mir'atü'l-Cezāyīr, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by 'Alī Şevḳī (علي شوقی). Text presents the history of Algeria under Ottoman rule from the 16th to the 19th century. Opens with a table of contents (ff. 2a-4a).
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:'Alī Rıżā' Paşa, Mir'atü'l-Cezāyīr. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
    • Subjects:Manuscripts, Turkish--Connecticut--New Haven.
      Africa, North--History--1517-1882.
      Algeria--History--1516-1830.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Turkish manuscripts.
      Hartford Theological Seminary. Case Memorial Library--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Annotations--19th century.
      Manuscripts, Turkish--19th century.
    • Also listed under: 'Alī Şevḳī.
      علي شوقی