Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a poem attributed to Aṭṭār.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings, The text is fframed within a single red line on most leaves. Several inscriptions, including dates of birth and death and ownership statements on fol. 1a and on the pastedown of the upper cover. Inscription in Arabic on fol. 179b stating the number of leaves. Mainly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Stained with water, with occasional loss of text ; mildewed.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Kātib in 861 H. (fol. 179a).
• Incipit: بنام كردكار فرد بيچون كه مارا از عدم اورد بيرون
• Explicit: بكو اكنون وفتوي ده حقيقت كه اين كس كشتني آمد حقيقت

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers are similarly blind stamped and tooled with a central scalloped mandorla filled with knotwork and outlined by fillets developing into pendants on the vertical axis. The outer border consists of fillets and a guilloche, with knotwork in the inner corners. Paper pastedowns. Spine and edges damaged.

Provenance

Several ownership statements, some with impression of a seal, on fol. 1a, the earliest dated 1211 H. Erased large circular seal on the margin of fol. 2a and throughout the copy. Purchased from Ayhan Aktar.

Source acquisition

Purchase ; Ayhan Aktar.

Title on tail of text block

• Haylājʹnāmah-yi Shaykh ʻAṭṭār

OCLC

217306041

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