Edeb

Edeb is more than manners. Şemseddin Sami defines it through refinement, good character and conduct suited to circumstance — a way of shaping how a person stands before others.

The word joins inner character to outward behaviour: refinement becomes visible through action.

Original one-of-a-kind artwork from the Mestûr collection.
Hand-written in Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old page from Kâmus-ı Türkî.
Page 83 · Left column.

Sold unframed.