Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Adventures of Hatim Tai.

Other related names

• Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner
• Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, donor
• Turner, William W. 1810-1859, former owner

Call number

X892.8 Ad9
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14634253
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1144966996
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_Ad9.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14634253

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian with some English glosses

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1853?

Summary

Persian-learner's copy of the story. In some sections, the story appears on rectos, and glosser terms in Persian and English appear on the facing verso (f. 1v-9v); in other sections, the story appears on both recto and verso, with vocabulary items annotated in English in the margin (f. 46-113).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from inscription (f. 1r).
   
• Inscription: "Wm. W. Turner, Esq.-- from his Friend Ch[...] Wexford -- NYork 1853 -- and to his Friend -- Alexander I. Coltheal -- from W.W. Turner" (flyleaf verso at back of book).
   

Extent

Ii, 111, i leaves : 224 x 182 (185 x 137) mm, bound to 227 x 184 x 21 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pulpboard with faint gold-tooled (now greenish) frame of parallel lines; plain paper doublure.

Layout

8 to 9 long lines.

Script

Written in large nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Alexander I. Cotheal (library bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Given by Ch[...] Wexford to William W. Turner in 1853 and then to Alexander I. Cotheal (note in pencil, back flyleaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp, f. 1r)
   

Subjects topical

• Persian prose literature
• Romances, Persian
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Adventures of Hatim Tai

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp