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Numbers written to resist forgery.
Also known as: Ottoman treasury script
The Ottoman financial notation writing numbers in a highly abbreviated script used in treasury and revenue records.
Writes quantities and sums in Ottoman financial and cadastral records.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Deliberately hard to read: the compression served both speed and security, since a clerk's figures could not easily be altered or forged by someone outside the scribal profession.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
The reason large parts of the Ottoman fiscal archive remain readable only by specialists, which is a live problem in economic history rather than a historical curiosity.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Number words compressed into rapid, heavily abbreviated strokes bearing little visible resemblance to the ordinary letters they derive from.