OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, 11 RABI' I AH 1232 28 FEBRUARY 1817 AD

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DHAYL (ADDENDUM TO WAQFIYYAH)
OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, 11 RABI' I AH 1232 28 FEBRUARY 1817 AD
Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 7ff. with 15ll. of fine black Ottoman naskh between gold clouds, opening folio with finely illuminated floral heading, final folio with colophon signed by Mustafa Vasif Efendi, slight worm damage, maroon morocco binding with gold tooling
Folio 16½ x 9½in. (42 x 24cm.)

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Lot Essay

This manuscript is an amendment (dhayl) to the previous lot extending the use of the revenues from Thasos to the support of a school for boys that Muhammad 'Ali Pasha had established in Kavala. The addendum was drawn up on 11 Rabi' II 1232 and enacted in Istanbul through the agency of Muhammad Najib Efendi who had power of attorney for Muhammad 'Ali in the capital.

This certified copy was made on the same day by Mustafa Vasif Efendi who describes himself as keeper of the tomb of Sultan Abdulhamid I and as a pupil of Hafiz Mehmed Vasfi Efendi, scribe of the Galata Saray palace.

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