Details

Subject(s)

• Persian language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]
• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Cloth bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Contains

• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550. Dīvān-i Shāhidī. [Browse]
• شاهدي ابراهيم دده، 1470-1550. دىوان شاهدى. [Browse]
• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550. Tuhfe-yi Şahidî. [Browse]
• شاهدي ابراهيم دده، 1470-1550. تحفه شاهدي. [Browse]

Summary note

Şahidî İbrahim's Persian divan, together with his Tuhfe-yi Şahidî, a Persian-Turkish dictionary in verse.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Text 2 has a table of contents on fol. 52a, and has some marginal annotations throughout.
• Layout: 7-17 lines per page in two columns ; first text is written diagonally ; frame-ruled in gold (first text and opening spread of second) or red.
• Description: Rubricated ; written in nastaʻlīq and general scripts. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed paper with visible chain lines, different for the two texts, with several olive colored leaves in text 1.
• Decoration: Illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b, beautifully executed in gold leaf with blue, orange, black and white watercolors.
• Origin: Text 1 is dated last 10 days of Ramaḍan 932 (1526) -- colophon (fol. 52b).
• Incipit: [دىوان شاهدى] شد خاك راه اين هر سودا نوشت اين شد مكر زروزازل سر نوشت -- [تحفه شاهدي] صچك والليل يوزك آيت والنور رخك النك ندر نور على نور
• Explicit: [دىوان شاهدى] كمش جانا تبندي شاهدي را كه چون اويا رخوش خويى نداري -- [تحفه شاهدي] شاهدى يه هر كم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفا

Binding note

Olive cloth with embossed floral pattern and light green paper around borders on covers. Brown leather on spine and cover edges. Pastedowns in marbled paper.

Language note

In Persian and Ottoman Turkish;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. Fol. 1b-51b: Dīvān-i Shāhidī.
• 2. Fol. 52a-74a: Tuhfe-yi Şahidî.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other title(s)

• Kitab-i Şahidî.
• كتاب شاهدي.
• Lügat-i Şahidî.
• لغت شاهدي.

OCLC

1340398148

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