A treatise on the metaphors used by Persian poets to describe the parts of the female body. Notes and quotations on inner covers, flyleaves, and fol. 2a.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a and lower edge.
Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous numbering.
Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on lavender glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive water damage in margins; text unaffected.
Origin: Copy completed by Shīr ʻAlī al-Sulṭānī at Tall Qiṭbān [?] (fol. 48b).
Incipit: حمد و ثنا خالقى را عمت کلمته که در مبداء خلقت وجود خاکىان را بتشرىف ولقد کرمنا بنى آدم مشرف گردانىد
Binding note
Quarter leather with marbled paper covers over pasted boards; with flap.
Language note
Persian.
Provenance
Owner's notes and large smudged stamp on fol. 2a. Owner's note dated 19 Muḥarram 1252 H. [6 May 1836] on fol. 49b.
References
Storey, C. A. Persian literature, III, 250
Other format(s)
Published (Tehran, 1997).
OCLC
730934105
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