Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian [Browse]
• Persian poetry—747-1500 [Browse]

Former owner

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

One leaf with a section of Jamī's poem Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. The leaf contains section 7 of the poem, about the Prophet Muḥammad's miʻrāj; couplets 4-17 on the recto, 19-25 on the verso with an illustration of the Prophet between verses 23 and 24.

Notes

• Decoration: Polychrome miniature of the Prophet (67 x 55 mm) in red, blue, yellow, green, brown and white (verso).
• Foliation: Unfoliated; catchword on the verso, lower left.
• Layout: 14 lines in two columns on the recto and 8 lines in two columns on the verso with an illustration the width of both columns before the last two lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Script: Written in nasta'liq in black ink; pointed.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 146a.
• This leaf was formerly laid in with MS Or 146, a manuscript codex containing Tuḥfat al-mulūk.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

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.

Language note

Persian.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1076587381

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