Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "205" in Arabic script.
• Ms. is erroneously numbered 1-141 in Western numerals beginning on the front endpaper; record follows erroneous numbering.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page, in 2 columns; written in nastaʻliq script in black on cream glazed, laid European paper. Headings in red; catchwords. Polychrome and gold illuminated header on fol. 2b; text set in clouds surrounded by gold and framed in blue and gold on fol. 2b-3a. Text and header on first two pages worn and smudged, with some loss of text. Text on fol. 3b-10b framed in red and blue with outer red marginal frame. Some staining and smudging, a few paper repairs. On fol. 49b: Stamp consisting of four multicolored butterflies in upper margin.
• Origin: Copy completed Rajab 1245 H. [December 1829 or January 1830] (fol. 140a).
• Incipit: تعالى الله زهى قيوم دانا * توانائى ده هر ناتوانى * فلک را انجمن افروز از انجم * زمىن را زىب انجم ده ز مردم

Binding note

Full brown and black leather binding with tooled fillets in corners.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owners' stamps and statements on fol. 80a, dated 17 Rajab 1335 H. [9 May 1917] and 9 Ramaḍān 1337 H. [8 June 1919]. Owner's statement on fol. 140a dated 17 Rajab 1335 H. [9 May 1917].

OCLC

709622145

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