Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Mignan, Robert, -1852 [Browse]
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 [Browse]
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection in 4 sections of rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and qaṣāʼid (odes). Sparse marginalia, some in the text language and some later notes in English.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached.
• Decoration: 3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely rubbed away on many leaves.
• Layout: Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century.
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script.
• Title from added title (f. 1r).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
• Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r).
• Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (manuscript 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine).
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Cite as

UPenn LJS 43.

Other title(s)

Poems by Kasem Persian

OCLC

770720606

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