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Original bdg. HC. 4to. (29 x 23 cm). Edition in English. 548 p., color ills. Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Collection of the Kubbealti Foundation. The Kubbealti Academy Culture and Art Foundation (Kubbealti Akademisi Kültür ve Sanat Vakfi) was established under the name The Kubbealti Association (Kubbealti Cemiyeti) in 1970, taking its current name in 1978. Basing itself upon historically-informed values proper to the Turkish nation, its mission is to publish works in scientific, intellectual, artistic, linguistic, and social subjects. Published on the occasion of the Foundation's fiftieth anniversary, the present catalogue covers 193 manuscripts bequeathed by Ekrem Hakki Ayverdi, a founding member, as well as three manuscripts left by his sister Sâmiha Ayverdi to her grandson Sinan Uluant.