[RARE MANUSCRIPTS / THE AGRARIAN REFORM OF OTTOMAN BOSNIA 1840-1877] Bilingual huge early manuscript historical document in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and Ottoman Turkish (Arabic) documenting the detailed tax questions and between a Serbian land tenant...

Manuscript, Travnik City, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire, AH 1276 = [1858-59]. COMPLETE TITLE: [RARE MANUSCRIPTS / THE AGRARIAN REFORM OF OTTOMAN BOSNIA 1840-1877] Bilingual huge early manuscript historical document in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) and Ottoman Turkish (Arabic) documenting the detailed tax questions and between a Serbian müstâcir (a land tenant) in farmland in Travnik city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and by the landlord Muslim named Mehmed Beyzâde Sems Bey, prepared in fî 15 Tesrîn 1276 [1858-59], same year with the Safer Ordinance, by which a serious Agrarian Reform was aimed in Bosnia by the Ottoman government. Black ink on a folio paper. 55x39 cm. Bilingual in Serbian (Cyrillic script) and Ottoman Turkish (Arabic script). 1 p., with some annotated notes on the margins. 50 lines in Serbian text, and 20 lines in Ottoman text. The centre of the paper is divided in half by a vertical line for usual bilingual texts. An early form of a Star and Crescent at t