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Trieste, Italia
The codex Ashb. 1547 of the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana of Florence contains a substantial lexical and phraseological Italian-Arabic glossary, with two additional short chapters regarding Greek and Turkish. The manuscript, unpublished so far, probably dates from the 16th century and is anonymous; from the internal data, we can infer that its author was a merchant of Venetian origin, who lived in Egypt for a while. It has to be pointed out that the texts in the various languages are all written only in the Latin script. This paper deals with the Italian-Turkish part of the codex, which comprises words and phrases concerning greetings and buying and selling, as well as a series of numerals. The Turkish lexical corpus is first presented in alphabetical order, if necessary comparing single entries to those of other Transkriptionstexte or of literary Ottoman; in a second step its graphematic, phonetic and morphological features are examined.
