This manuscript contains 138 instrumental works written in a letter-based notation based on the Ottoman alphabet. This notation system differs slightly from the system used by Kantemir during the same period.
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script
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Other
This manuscript is part of the Rauf Yekta Bey collection, a private collection that is currently kept with family members of Rauf Yekta Bey's descendants. The collection is not open to the public and special access was given to a working group of the Osmanlı Türk Müziği Çalışma Grubu (OTMAG) led by Professor Nilgun Doğrusöz in 2015. Their cataloging efforts were later published as "Rauf Yekta Bey'in Musiki Antikaları" by the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanliği in 2018.
