Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 74. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Khvājū-yi Kirmānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī, 1290 or 91- 1352? Humāy va Humāyūn. [Browse]
• خواجوى کرمانى، محمود بن على، 1290 or 91- 1352? هماى و هماىون. [Browse]

Contains

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. Iskandarnāmah. [Browse]
• نظامى گنجوى، 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. اسکندرنامه. [Browse]

Summary note

Composite manuscript containing two epic poems.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Couplet of poetry on f. 289b.
• Description: Text area framed with black and red ruled lines. Headings and marginal and interlinear notes in red ink. Catchwords; some annotations. Paper is glazed laid stock. Slight discoloration around edges. Otherwise very good condition. Four leaves attached to front cover which is detached from volume.
• Incipit: [سكندر نامة] سم الله الرحمن الرحيم خدايا جهان پادشائى تراست زما خدمت آيد خدائى تراست
• Colophon: [سكندر نامة] تم تم تمام شد دوم ماه ربيع الاول يوم شنبه نوم مهر ابتدا سنة ١٢٥٢

Binding note

Binding is brown leather over pasteboard. Spine is broken. Doublures of red leather. Cover centers bear blind stamped mandorlas with wine motif in relief.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1-290: Sikandarʹnāmah. Text of the famous poetic work on the life, career and legends concerning Alexander the Great.
• 2. fol. 291-484: Sāmʹnāmah. Text is identified as the Sāmʹnāmah on the fly leaf, but the colophon mentions Humāy va Humāyūn suggesting that this may be an anonymous version of that work by Khvājū-yi Kirmānī. Other catalogues suggested that there is a connection between these two texts.

Provenance

• Leaf 5 of free endpaper has donation inscription: "Sicandar Nama. To the College of New Jersey. With the grateful recollections of an Allahabad Alumnus. Nov. 16th 1846."
• 178820.

Other title(s)

• Sāmʹnāmah.
• سام‌نامه.
• Sikandarʹnāmah.
• سکندر‌نامه.

OCLC

429428917

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