Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Acephalous and defective copy of a collection of five epic poems (Makhzān al-asrār, Khusraw va Shīrīn, Haft Paykar, Laylī va Majnūn, Iskandarnāmah).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page, written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with four colums to the page defined by double gold ruled lines. Titles in gold in cartouche defined by ruled lines in gold. The text is framed in gold outlined in black with a blue outline. Thin laid paper ; glossy. Lacuna between fol. 249 and 250 ; margins stained with water.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Rajab 975 [Jan. 1568] (fol. 260b).
• Beginning as extant: پمبر بدان جنكئ ره نورد برآورد ازين آب كردنده كرد
• Explicit: بپايان رساندم شرف نامه را بنظم وبقانون شه نامه را

Binding note

Dark green leather. Covers have double fillet border with intervening blind-stamped scroll design. A third fillet is connected to the outer frame by diagonal lines at the corners. Upper cover has a central blind-stamped madorla filled with a floral motif with pendants on the vertical axis. Lower cover has central mandorla and pendants on the vertical axis, with floral motif in relief against a gilt background. Paper pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Aquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

122958790

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