Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 93

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DS ID:

DS4232

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 93

Title:

Tārīkh-i Salānīkī.

Author:

Selânikî Mustafa Efendi, -1600? / سلانيكى، مصطفى افندى،

Mustafa Selaniki WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1722 / محمد بن عبد الله،

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey

Turkey TGN

Language:

Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 400 leaves : 277 x 150 (195 x 76) mm bound to 277 x 161 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Clark, Clarence H. 1833-1906

Clarence Howard Clark, Sr. WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Illuminations (painting) Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century Manuscripts, Turkish--18th century

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from bottom edge.
Binding: Lacquered red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with painted floral decorations in gold and colors on a shimmering brown field; pastedowns and flap lining of floral woven green silk with woven gold flowers.
Layout: 25 long lines; border-ruled. Occasional passages of poetry in two or three columns divided by gold rules.
Script: Written in neat nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Illuminated six-pointed star inside gold medallion (f. 1r); illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (f. 1v, 401v); illuminated text dividers (f. 158v, 221r); fill of pink flowers in empty, ruled textblock (f. 401v-402r). Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; headings centered and framed in gold rules; rubrications in red and gold.
Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Clarence H. Clark (bookplate first flyleaf recto).
Provenance: Sold at the Clarence H. Clark sale by Stan V. Henkels at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. book auction rooms on November 30, 1909, lot 189 (catalog clipping pasted onto first flyleaf recto).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate first flyleaf recto).

Keyword:

Illuminations (painting)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Manuscripts, Turkish--18th century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_093.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_093/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia