Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1500Y

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12993

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1500Y

Title:

Dīvān-i Shāhidī ... [etc

Author:

Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550 / شاهدي ابراهيم دده

Shahidi Ibrahim Dede WIKIDATA

Date:

1526-16--?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Persian and Ottoman Turkish

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 75 leaves : paper ; 178 x 117 (100-125 x 56-70) mm bound to 178 x 120 mm.

Note:

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

Keyword:

Dictionaries

Poetry

dictionaries

illuminated manuscripts

Colored papers

Cloth bindings

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Turkish

New Jersey--Princeton

Persian language

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951485543506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af4e07d7-7512-4b70-a573-e08caceaf3d4/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University