Details

Subject(s)

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian—Specimens [Browse]
• Persian literature—747-1500 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—747-1500 [Browse]

Donor

• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937 [Browse]

Former owner

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 [Browse]

Related name

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of the complete works of Khāqānī with four illustrations and three illuminated page openings.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and cornerpieces with matching stamps on flap. Inside covers have brown leather doublure with inlay central mandorla in blue, yellow, red, and green with black filigree tracery, two pendants, cornerpieces and four notches, two on either long edge, all of which were filigree inlay, though some are now missing.
• Decoration: Four polychrome illustrations in two sets of facing pages (f. 82v-83r, 185v-186r); three sets of illuminated full page openings with headpieces in gold and blue, text on cloudbands with gold and polychrome flower fill between the lines and gold floral and bird marginal fill (f. 1v-2r, 9v-10r, 256v-257r); textblock border ruled in gold and blue; rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 18 lines in two columns; some marginalia.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The copy is undated and not signed, but perhaps completed in the late 16th or early 17th century.
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Title from caption (f. 1v).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

References

Simsar, Muhammed Ahmed. Oriental manuscripts of the John Frederick Lewis Collection, 60

OCLC

1111686993

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