Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Part of the fourth awrang from Jāmī's Haft awrang; first line of text corresponds to p. 459, line 10 of the Tehran, 1958 printed edition.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia.
• On spine: Label reading "Subḥat al-abrār khaṭṭī" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 16 lines per page in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Text and columns framed in blue and gold. Boxes have been left for headings, but these have not been filled in. Fol. 1-6, 13-14, 16, 21, 85, 90-96 are of glazed, laid European paper and were likely added to fill in lost text, but only fol. 86 has been written on. Insert between fol. 76-77. Extensive staining on fol. 11b with some loss of text. Inner margin of each leaf has been reinforced. A few leaves are detached.
• Incipit (as extant): شاه والا گهر درىا کف * که فلک گوهر او راست صدف

Binding note

Limp maroon leather.

Language note

Persian.

OCLC

732343041

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