Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Oriental—18th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—18th century [Browse]
• Persian poetry—747-1500 [Browse]

Former owner

• Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur, active 1739 [Browse]
• حيات الله خان بهادر،, active 1739، [Browse]
• Buck, Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett), 1887-1959 [Browse]
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 [Browse]
• Macan, Turner, 1792-1836 [Browse]

Donor

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

Binder

• Zucker, Hyman [Browse]

Related name

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

Summary note

Copy of a collection of Ḥāfiẓ's poetry with no preface.

Notes

• Binding: Rebound in 1918 by H. Zucker of Philadelphia in red leather with gold tooled spine, turn-ins, border and frame with gold-tooled flowers in the corners and centered along each side between the border and the frame; Hafiz is gold-stamped on the spine; plain brown pastedowns.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with green, purple and blue flowers (pages 2); each page is border-ruled in gold, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue; the columns are divided by double gold rules.
• Foliation: Modern pagination added in pencil, lower outer corners; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 15 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated and the scribe is not named; likely copied in India, probably in the 18th century.
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Two bookplates and a card pasted into front inside cover; a note of ownership in Persian in ink on page 1 and poems by that owner's son, ʻAbd Allāh, written onto the last leaf (pages 428).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

• Formely owned by Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur in the 20th year of Muḥammad Shāh Pādishāh's reign (=1739) (note in ink pages 1).
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
• Formerly owned by Mitchell S. Buck (bookplate inside front cover).
• Formerly owned by Turner Macan (bookplate inside front cover).

References

Simsar, Muhammed Ahmed. Oriental manuscripts of the John Frederick Lewis Collection, 75

OCLC

1124679538

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