Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî

Title:

Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî
تحفۀ شاهدى

Creator:

Şahidî İbrahim Dede
شاهدي ابراهيم دده

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Mustafa Reşit, former owner
مصطفى رشيد, مالك سابق

Date:

[1711 or 1712].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 399Origin: As appears at the close in the margin of p.92, date of 1123 [1711 or 12] accompanying presentation statement to "the late" Damat İbrahim Paşa [perhaps the earlier but not Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Paşa (d.1730) who was not even married to Fatma Sultan until 1717]. Paper, etc. are entirely consistent with an 18th century dating.Former shelfmark: "428 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1) ; "122" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in marbled paper (in pink, yellow, blue) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border and accents ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; only traces of endband primaries remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (vertical) and assorted raisin watermarks including grapes under cartouche and crown (p.92, etc.), grapes alone (p.16, etc.) and cartouche alone, dark cream in color, fairly transluscent though sturdy, crisp, highly sized and burnished to glossy ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper with three hats watermark.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece at opening on p.6 consisting of a scalloped w-shaped piece with floral vegetal decoration in pink, lavender, blue, red, and white on fields of gold, blue and green (turquoise), set in a well of red and white and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame ; margins and columns within also outlined by gold rules ; red discs accent the text ; whole passages of the gloss rubricated or chrysographed to set off the designs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 7 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled ; marginalia in exquisite shapes, mainly floral, quite artistically arranged.Collation: ii, 4 V(40), IV (48) ; quinions followed by a quaternion ; final four leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Explicit: "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج اب وحيات شاهدى يه هر كيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفى"Incipit: "بنام خالق وحي وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive marginal glosses in exquisite shapes.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts, Turkish
Turkish poetry Early works to 1800.
Persian language Dictionaries Turkish Early works to 1800.

Extent:

48 leaves : paper ; 270 x 165 (202 x 91) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822259

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