Drafts of Kahle’s "A Gypsy Woman in Egypt..."

Object identifier ARC_405
Tipologia Item
Data cronica
ante 1950

Titles

Title
“A Gypsy Woman in Egypt in the 13th Century A.D. by Paul E. Kahle”
Type
formal title
Title
Drafts of Kahle’s "A Gypsy Woman in Egypt..."
Type
supplied title

Description

Copy (in part typewritten, in part manuscript) of the drafts of Paul Kahle’s “A Gypsy Woman in Egypt in the Thirteenth Century, A.D.”. In the article Kahle edited the transcription and the English translation of a zaǧal taken from Ibn Dāniyāl’s "Ṭayf al-Ḫayāl" recited by a Gypsy woman called al-ṣāniʻa, i.e. “the woman who performs something”. Enclosed, a few typewritten pages containing the drafts of the German translation of the text edited in English.

Publication notes

Publication notes
Paul Kahle, “A Gypsy Woman in Egypt in the Thirteenth Century, A.D.”, in: Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 29 (1950), pp. 11-15

Languages

English

Arabic

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
17
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
330(254)
Width
200

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