American gentleman’s Ottoman travel permit
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Description
- Title
- American gentleman’s Ottoman travel permit
- Published / Created
- 1835 May 29.
- Publication Place
- Gümüşhane, Turkey
- Abstract
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Manuscript leaf, on paper, of an American gentleman's Ottoman travel permit, a mürūr tez̲keresi (مرور تذكره سی;Travel permit or internal passport), issued in Gümüşhane province of the Ottoman Empire. Document was issued for an American gentleman, named Berges[?] (برکیس), his wife, his translator, and his servant, who had traveled from Istanbul to Gümüşhane and wished to continue their travels to Erzurum in H. 1 Safar 1251/29 May 1835
- Description
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In Ottoman Turkish.
Title devised by cataloger.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single columns of 9 diagonal lines.
Script: Dīwānī.
The document signed in H. 1 Safar 1251/29 May 1835.
The American nobleman in question may be identified as Horatio Southgate (d. 1894) who documented his journey to Gümüşhane, which he undertook with a similar travel permit from the Ottoman Sultan. Compare: Southgate, H. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia, p. 146.
Later hand annotations on top right of the document: Buyruldu (بيورلدي), a passport from a pasha. - Provenance
- Unidentified circular stamp of an imperial scribe in the right top corner of the document. Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870.
- Extent
- 1 item (1 leaf) : 195 mm x 155 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Salisbury MSS 103 1
- Container / Volume
- Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Decrees
Ottoman History
Annotations 20th century
Manuscripts, Turkish 19th century
Turkish manuscripts - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
- Southgate, Horatio, 1812-1894.
- Subjects
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Southgate, Horatio, 1812-1894
20th century
19th century
Turkish manuscripts
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, 1814-1901
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- American Gentleman's Ottoman Travel Permit. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 3852493
- Object ID (OID)
- 33234191
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