AN IMPORTANT OTTOMAN WAQF (DEED) ASSOCIATED WITH BESHIR AGA (CHIEF...
AN IMPORTANT OTTOMAN WAQF (DEED) ASSOCIATED WITH BESHIR AGA (CHIEF HAREM EUNUCH)
Ottoman Lands, 1145 AH (1732-33 AD)
Arabic endowment on lined paper, 66 lines to the page, written in black naskh script in a single column, with extensive marginal annotations, judicial and scholarly endorsements and witness seals; this Arabic Ottoman legal document is a waqf connected with the Holy Sancturaries of Mecca and Medina and associated with Hacı Beşir Ağa, one of the most prominent and influential officials of the eighteenth-century Ottoman court.
57cm x 25.5cm
Beshir Aga (Hacı Beşir Ağa d. 1159 AH / 1746 AD) served as the chief harem eunuch under sultan Ahmad III, from 1717 until his death.
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AN IMPORTANT OTTOMAN WAQF (DEED) ASSOCIATED WITH BESHIR AGA (CHIEF HAREM EUNUCH)
Ottoman Lands, 1145 AH (1732-33 AD)
Arabic endowment on lined paper, 66 lines to the page, written in black naskh script in a single column, with extensive marginal annotations, judicial and scholarly endorsements and witness seals; this Arabic Ottoman legal document is a waqf connected with the Holy Sancturaries of Mecca and Medina and associated with Hacı Beşir Ağa, one of the most prominent and influential officials of the eighteenth-century Ottoman court.
57cm x 25.5cm
Beshir Aga (Hacı Beşir Ağa d. 1159 AH / 1746 AD) served as the chief harem eunuch under sultan Ahmad III, from 1717 until his death.
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Time, Location
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