Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tuḥfah-ʼi Shāhidī.
[تحفۀ شاهدى]

Authors

• Shāhidī Dadah Mughlavī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ, 1470 or 1471-1550 or 1551
  شاهدى دده مغلوى، ابراهيم بن صالح،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥ̣ammad Amīn, active 1801, scribe
  محمد امين،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 90
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124682514
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_090.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515791

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian and Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1216 A.H. (1801 or 1802)

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Neatly written copy of a Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary in verse.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, number 354, pasted in (first front flyleaf verso). The typewritten number 1842 pasted in upside down (first front flyleaf verso).
   

Extent

I, 68, ii leaves : 192 x 124 (120 x 67) mm bound to 191 x 132 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in green leather over pasteboard which has been cut for an inlay mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis so that faint impressions are visible under the leather, with flap (Type II); gilt-stamped frame; doublure of marbled paper in brown, blue and pink with yellow paper endleaves sprinkled in silver. Manuscript comes with a red leather carrying case, with marbled paper interior and the same gilt-stamped frame as the codex, a red textile pull with a gilt-stamped leather tab, partially deteriorated, connects to the inside.

Layout

Seven lines in three columns with up to 50 lines at angles (in two sets of up to 25) in the three margins along the outside edges; margins ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold with purple, blue, and yellow flowers and green leaves and stems with purple and red borders and red and blue finials along the top (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in double gold and red; columns ruled in double gold; page-opening ruled in narrow gold; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, main text vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, first front flyleaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Turkish
• Persian language--Dictionaries--Turkish
• Persian poetry--1500-1796
• Persian language
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Dictionaries
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Tuḥfah-ʼi Shāhidī].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece