Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Poetry anthology in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2009
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977535737003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1130310460
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex2009.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ottoman Turkish and Persian with some Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1799?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Small collection of poetry written on a long, narrow notebook bound along the top (safīnah style) chiefly in Ottoman Turkish with some Arabic and Persian; a number of pages are blank.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

80 leaves : 213 x 75 (200 x 65) mm bound to 213 x 75 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in red ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper center verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with faint blind-stamped central mandorla, frame and corner lines; plain paper doublure;

Layout

15-21 lines, often at a slight angle; often lines will be offset or in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; pasted on headpiece decoration (front flyleaf recto).

Script

Written in naskh and nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; some Arabic vocalized.

Provenance

• Sold at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), lot 59, April 30, 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Turkish poetry
• Persian poetry
• Arabic poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poems
• Blind tooled (decoration)

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