[Tuhfe-i Şâhidî].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550.

Contributor:

• Froissart, Ludovic Damas, former owner.
• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

• Tuhfe-i Şâhidî

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman

Subjects (All):

• Persian language--Dictionaries--Turkish.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Dictionaries.
• Poetry.
• Manuscripts, Turkish -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by Ludovic Froissart (bookplate, Ex-Libris L. Froissart, inside lower cover).
• Sold at auction at Hôtel Drouot by De Baecque (Paris), 13 October 2021, lot 77.

Physical Description:

44 leaves : paper ; 210 x 130 (160 x 70) mm bound to 210 x 140 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Turkey?], A.H. 1145 (1733)

Language Note:

Ottoman Turkish.

Summary:

18th-century copy of a 16th-century Persian-Turkish dictionary in verse, with occasional marginal notes. The leaves are fragile, with the textblock detaching from the margins on many leaves.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper, 44; 1-12¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁶; [1-44], modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.
• Layout: Written in 2 columns of 14 lines or 15 lines (f. 1v-5v, 8v, 11r-11v, 24r, 35r-44r) or 15 long lines (f. 6r-8r, 9r-10v, 12r-23v, 24v-34v); textblock and column margins frame-ruled in ink.
• Script: Written in nastʻalīq script.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); textblock and columns outlined in gold, gold dots as line fillers on pages formatted in long lines.
• Binding: Leather with flap attached to lower cover (Type II), with stamped gilt medallions on covers and flap.
• Origin: Written in the Ottoman Empire in A.H. 1145 (April 1733; De Baecque).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited as:

Şahidî İbrahim Dede, Tuhfe-i Şâhidî (Ms. Codex 2156). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1416765819

Access Restriction:

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Online:

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