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City University of New York (CUNY)

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2017

Ottoman miniatures

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New Evidence For Early Modern Ottoman Arabic And Turkish Sign Systems, Kristina Richardson Jan 2017

New Evidence For Early Modern Ottoman Arabic And Turkish Sign Systems, Kristina Richardson

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The earliest descriptions of Latin finger alphabets were recorded in southern Europe between 1579 and 1589. New literary and visual evidence for sixteenth-century Ottoman Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sign systems are presented and analyzed in this article.