Details

Subject(s)

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)—Poetry [Browse]
• Potiphar's wife (Biblical figure)—Poetry [Browse]

Donor

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Turkish translation of the Persian adaptation of the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) with darker brown spine and edges.
• Collation: Paper, 218; 1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-22¹⁰; [1-216, i-ii], modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled and columns ruled in red (except for gold borders, f. 1v-2r); rubrications in blue, gold, or red ink.
• Layout: Written in 2 columns of 15 lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram in A.H. 983 (1575 CE) (f. 216v).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish with some Arabic

Script

(Arabic script).

Provenance

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Source acquisition

Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside front cover).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 216.

OCLC

962261650

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