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[Tuhfe-i Şâhidî].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2156
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550.
- Standardized Title:
- Tuhfe-i Şâhidî
- Language:
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Subjects (All):
- Persian language--Dictionaries--Turkish.
- Persian language.
- 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:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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