[Tuhfe-i Şâhidî]

Contributor:

Froissart, Ludovic Damas (former owner)

Name:

Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550

Date:

1733

Description:

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.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

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.

Relation:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271

Subject:

Persian language -- Dictionaries -- Turkish

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Dictionaries; Poetry; Manuscripts, Turkish; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Ottoman Turkish.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 44; 1-12¹⁰ 3⁸ 4¹⁰ 5⁶; [1-44], modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.; 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.; Script: Written in nastʻalīq script.; Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); textblock and columns outlined in gold, gold dots as line fillers on pages formatted in long lines.; Binding: Leather with flap attached to lower cover (Type II), with stamped gilt medallions on covers and flap.; Origin: Written in the Ottoman Empire in A.H. 1145 (April 1733; De Baecque).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2156

Collection:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund