Università di Torino

Various materials and drafts of Kahle’s "Das Krokodilspiel (Li‘b et-Timsāḥ)..."

Object identifier ARC_430
Type Item
Date
ante 1915

Titles

Title
Various materials and drafts of Kahle’s "Das Krokodilspiel (Li‘b et-Timsāḥ)..."
Type
supplied title

Description

File containing various manuscript parts of the drafts of Paul Kahle’s “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”. One of the copies is numbered by Kahle in pencil since he evidently considered it the definitive version. This version is complete with the Arabic texts, the corresponding transliteration and translation into German. Pages 20-24 and 35-38 (as numbered in the drafts) are missing. Among the drafts there are the following pages/parts: - manuscript pages corresponding to pp. 288-289 of the edited text; - a few manuscript pages concerning ʻAlam and Taʻādīr; - general notes regarding to «Liʻb al-Timsāḥ»; - manuscript drafts of the translation into German of the «Liʻb al-Timsāḥ» as recorded from Ḥasan al-Qaššāš in Cairo reproduced in the Supplement of Paul Kahle’s “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel; - “Nachtrag zu Nachr. 1915, S. 288-359: “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”: manuscript page containing the beginning of the Supplement to Kahle’s “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”; - manuscript notes concerning «zaǧal», «muwaššaḥ» and problems in relation to the prosody of the shadow play discussed by Kahle; - manuscript page containing the transcription of the text of part V, dôr 3-4, edited pp. 331-332 (first part); - manuscript page containing the beginning of the artiche by Paul Kahle’s “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”; - manuscript copy of the transcription and translation into German of the text reproduced in the Supplement to Kahle’s “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”. Enclosed are various notes and preliminary studies relating to the topic. They have been left as Paul Kahle ordered them.

Publication notes

Publication notes
Paul Kahle, “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel”, in: «Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse», Göttingen 1915, pp. 288-359. Paul Kahle, “Das Krokodilspiel («Li‘b et-Timsāḥ»), ein egyptisches Schattenspiel. (Nachtrag Zu Nachrichten)”, in: «Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse», Göttingen 1920, pp. 277-284.

Languages

German

Arabic

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
178
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
345(207)
Width
210(160)