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

Title

Tuḥfat al-ʻirfān.
تحفة العرفان

Authors

• Narḫīzāde, Muḥammed Muṣīb, active 1720
• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550
  شاهدي ابراهيم دده،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 385
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13884819
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101676399
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_385.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13884819

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

between 1720 and 1775?

Place

Turkey

Summary

A commentary on 100 verses of Tuḥfe-yi Şāhidī with discussion of poetic meter, lexicons and explanation of difficulties. A long preface by Muḥammed Muṣīb al-șehir bi-Narḫīzāde in which he describes his travels around the Eastern Mediterranean and how he came to find out about Şāhidī and his poetry introduces the work.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 3r).
   

Extent

119 leaves : 218 x 160 (160 x 85) mm, bound to 222 x 162 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with the flap missing; blind stamped central mandorla and blind tooled frame.

Layout

21 long lines with marginalia; catchwords every verso.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

• Turkish poetry--16th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish

Genres

• Early works to 1800
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• Full covers
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Inside Front Cover — Tuḥfat al-ʻirfān.