[Collection of Persian poetry].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Persian
Published/​Created
[Iran?], 1432.
Description
1 online resource (i, 180 paginated leaves) : paper, illuminations

Details

Subject(s)
Scribe
Bookseller
Former owner
Related name
Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]
Contains
Summary note
Collection of Persian poetry with an introductory table of contents by Saʻīd Nafīsī, a former owner (p.1). Several leaves copied by Nafīsī and inserted. They include two poems by Ḥāfiẓ (p. 156); 12 pages containing poems from the margins of a copy of Khusraw Dihlavī (p.197b-197l); and two poems missing from the Dīvān of Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī (unnumbered page after pages 259).
Notes
  • Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and colors (pages 61, 199); polychrome illuminated headers with leaf and vine motifs (pages 1, 125, 157, 305); textblock border-ruled in blue and red or blue and gold; columns and sections ruled in red; rubrications in red, green, blue, gold; some poetry set off by red markers.
  • Layout: 21 long lines; chiefly in two columns; no catchwords; border-ruled.
  • Manuscript codex.
  • Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 836 AH (1432 CE) by ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī (pages 240).
  • Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; headings in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.
  • Shelfmark: MS Or 452.
  • Title supplied by cataloger; titles of component parts from table of contents (pages 1).
Location of originals
  • Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  • OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Source of description
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Binding note
Light brown leather faintly blind-stamped with central mandorla, six pendants, four on the vertical axis and two on the horizontal, and cornerpieces; blind-tooled double frame; plain paper doublure.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
  • Formerly owned by Saʻīd Nafīsī, number 3494 (stamp and note in ink, pages 200 [=0]).
  • Sold by Mīrzā ʻAlī Aṣghar Kitābfurūsh [bookseller] to Saʻīd Nafīsī in Tehran in Ābān 1314 (October 1935 CE) (note in ink, pages 200 [=0]).
Source acquisition
Forms part of the Saʻīd Nafīsī collection purchased by Columbia Unversity in 1961 (library bookplate inside back cover).
Other format(s)
Also available as a digital facsimile.
OCLC
1152173000
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