Abstract
Having been lived in the late Ottoman period, known as book-friendly and men of literature as well as ideas, Ali Emiri Efendis work, called as Durub-ý Emsal-i Osmaniyye, consists of proverbs and idioms written in Ottoman Turkish. In addition, there are approximately one thousand five hundred verses related to proverbs and idioms. Verses are written to the upper part of the related proverbs and idioms at an angle of about 90 degrees. The work has a total of 161 sheets and was written by rika, a font of Ottoman Turkish. There is an average of five lines on each page. In the piece, 2440 proverbs and idioms were put down on paper alphabetically (according to the Arabic alphabet) by the author. The work is recorded in three volumes and in numbers 282.,283., and 284. at Ali Emiri Literary Works Department of Millet Written Manuscripts Library in Istanbul. Evaluations and assessments were conducted by taking this copy into account. The verse and proverb examples, which are presented while providing information on the content, structure and style of the work, are taken from a study conducted by Islam KUCUK on the above-mentioned work.
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