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ACQUISITIONS OF 1970-9 (Or. 14.221-8, cont.)

Dutch citizens in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 (Strafrechtspraak over Nederlanders in Turkije, Amsterdam 1915). Three of the folders contain Turkish texts, both printed and hand-written. The majority of the Kramers papers, including letters, are found in Cod.Or. 18.094 and 18.100, registered in June 1983. Cods.Or. 14.221 and 14.228, not described here, contains notes by Hellmut Ritter on manuscripts preserved in Istanbul libraries (cf. Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 323-4, 327). Literature: Witkam, Catalogue, pp. 323-7; Schmidt, Legation Window, pp. 117-8.

Or. 14.222 A folder with various papers belonging to the personal archive of J.H. Kramers. The folder contains five separate files: Or. 14.222a A file in cardboard covers entitled ‘ Vreemde elementen in 7 TurksdT A collection of sheets of paper in various formats with draft wordlists Dutch- Turkish (with occasional words in Hebrew and in Indian scripts), annotations in Dutch (on, among other things, linguistics and the Islamic law courts), exercises and translations into Turkish, transcriptions in Arabic and Latin scripts, a draft map of Central Asia, draft notes (e.g. on the difference between European and Turkish time-reckoning and on the contents of books), essays (for instance ‘Thoughts about the war’, various copies; and the Turkish of Istanbul), bills, and letters (e.g. to a local gas dealer, the editors of the journal Sebil er-re$ad, and to his teacher), both in ink and pencil, many of them later corrected by a teacher in purple rik'a. The sheets, mostly of chequered paper but also consisting of headed note paper of the Dutch Embassy, are, if at all, dated between October 1915 and November 1918. Notable, in particular, are a transcription of the Jihad Proclamation, in Ottoman and Tatar Turkish (one sheet, to pages in two columns); a draft letter in which Kramers tries to arrange a meeting with the addressee, dated 13 April 1332/1916, in an envelope addressed to Mehmed NecatT, secretary of the ticdret mekteb-i ‘dlifsi] at Beyoglu (see plate). He apparently was a friend of Kramers, with whom he went out for walks and discussed all kinds of things, like the ezan, probably also to practise Turkish conversation (cf. draft note dated 5 October 1915). There are also two short letters from NecatT Bey to Kramers. Kramers’s teacher (hpca), or perhaps one of his teachers, was Mustafa Re§Td