• Dīvān-i Shāhidī

Collections:

• Building Exhibits in DigitalPUL
• Robert Garrett
• From A to Z: Dictionaries across the Arabo-Persian World
• Manuscripts of the Islamic World
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

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

Language:

• Persian

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1500Y

Extent:

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

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• 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

Publisher:

• [1526-16--?]

Subject:

• Persian language—Dictionaries—Turkish—Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
• dictionaries
• Poetry
• Dictionaries
• headpieces (layout features)
• illuminated manuscripts
• Cloth bindings
• Colored papers

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Text language:

• In Persian and Ottoman Turkish;

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.

Created:

• 1526-01-01T00:00:00Z/1600-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

• 1526-1600

Abstract:

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

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/h128nd760

Location:

• Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1500Y

Available online:

• arks.princeton.edu

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Dīvān-i Shāhidī
• Tuhfe-yi Şahidî

Creator:

• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550
• شاهدي ابراهيم دده

Type:

• Poetry
• Dictionaries

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.

Author:

• Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550

Uniform title:

• Works. Selections

Exhibit Tags:

• Dictionaries