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

Title

Tuhfe-i Şâhidî.

Authors

• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550

Other related names

• Froissart, Ludovic Damas, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 2156
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978064419003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1416765819
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3028qf3p

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

A.H. 1145 (1733)

Place

Turkey?

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.
   

Extent

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

Collation

Paper, 44; 1-12¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁶; [1-44], modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather with flap attached to lower cover (Type II), with stamped gilt medallions on covers and flap.

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.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); textblock and columns outlined in gold, gold dots as line fillers on pages formatted in long lines.

Script

Written in nastʻalīq script.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian language--Dictionaries--Turkish

Genres

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

Keywords

• Dictionary
• 18th century
• Ottoman
• Persian
• Headpiece
• Paper
• Literature--Poetry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Tuhfe-i Şâhidî]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v