Poems, mainly in Persian but also a few in Arabic.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 5b.
Line 1 of text corresponds to p. 19, line 16 of Tehran, 1978 printed edition.
Physical description: 20 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on modern paper. Catchwords. Center text framed in red, gold, and blue with red lines marking off columns. Outer red border in margin. On each page, text begins in center frame then continues in margins. Fol. 80b-81b blank, with lacuna in text; fol. 1a, 193a blank. Fol. 144a rubbed out. Slight marginal damp staining and binding partially detached; otherwise in good condition.
Decoration: Polychrome and gold illuminated ʻunwans with illuminated floral motifs in outer margins on fol. 1b, 5b. Crude blue and red ʻunwan and marginal foliar motif on fol. 186b.
Incipit: فلک کج رو تر است از خط ترسا * مرا دارد مسلسل راهب آسا
Binding note
Full olive-green leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and tooled fillets; blind-stamped four-lobed foliar design in border and in central frame above and below mandorla.
Language note
Persian and Arabic.
Contents
1. fol. 1b-4b: [Introduction to the author's life and work].
2. fol. 4b-5a: [Unidentified text by a later hand].
4. fol. 184b-186a: [Unidentified text by a later hand].
5. fol. 186b-192b: [Collection of Persian poems]. Authors include Ibn Ḥusām, Firdawsī, and Abū al-Mafākhir Rāzī.
6. fol. 193b: [Quotations of Persian poetry].
OCLC
731029000
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