This book offers the first study, transliteration,
and English translation of a little-known
manuscript held in the Biblioteca Riccardiana
in Florence (Ricc. 198): a manual for teaching
Turkish, composed in 1667 by ‘Abdullāh, a
captive of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Written
aboard a ship bound for Livorno by a man
who feared for his life and worked entirely
from memory, the manuscript is unusual
among the surviving materials for teaching
...