Details

Subject(s)

• Persian literature—1500-1796 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—1500-1796 [Browse]

Former owner

• Salim, Muhammad [Browse]
• محمد سليم، [Browse]
• Ḥasan Naqāsh Iṣfahānī Muḥammad ʻAlī [Browse]
• حسن نقاش اصفهانى محمد على، [Browse]
• Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 [Browse]

Related name

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College). [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of poetry by ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, begins abruptly; includes sections called Qaṣāʼid afṣaḥ al-mutaqaddimīn wa-al-mutaʼakhirīn, Muqaṭṭaʻāt, Rubāʻīyāt, Javāb-i Makhzan, Sāqīʹnāmah and Qaṣīdat Mawlanā ʻAmīdī, another section of praise poetry labeled by individual is also included; some of the titles were added by a later hand. A number of headpiece decorations and detailed marginal doodles were also added by a later hand.

Notes

• Binding: Reddish leather over thin pasteboard with blind-tooled frame; severe water damage.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red; textblock ruled in red, including between columns; headpiece monochrome foliate fill likely added later along with several marginal doodles.
• Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 19 lines, in two columns.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1001 A.H. (1592 or 1593) (f. 206r).
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ḥasan Naqāsh Iṣfahānī Muḥammad ʻAlī (note f. 140v).
• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Salīm (note f. 129v).

Cite as

Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections manuscripts RH 66

OCLC

1112672778

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