Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

A collection of the poems of Khvājū-yi Kirmānī, incomplete at end. Text is on fol. 2b-129b; poems in Turkish and Persian on fol. 2a, 130a and notes in Persian on fol. 1a, 130b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper tinted a variety of colors. Illuminated header on fol. 2b in blue, gold, and green, reading "Allāhu wa-lā siwāhu." Columns bordered by gold on fol. 2b-3b, then by gray on fol. 4a-5b, thereafter by double red lines; headings in gold. Extensive dampstaining and paper repairs, with some loss of text. Fol. 125-130 detached from text block. Fragments of fol. 129 affixed to plastic. In delicate condition.
• Origin: According to notes by a recent hand on the inside cover and fol. 130a, this copy was completed in 856 H. [1452 or 3] by Darvīsh Aḥīlī (?). Original colophon missing.

Binding note

Full brown leather with stamped central mandorla and pendants painted red and stamped fillets. Back cover detached; flap missing.

Language note

Persian.

OCLC

711774744

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