Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from label on front cover.
• On inner front cover: Label reading "12049" in Western script.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, in two columns; written in elegant shikastah in black on heavy, glazed paper. Text and columns framed in blue, gold, and black, with gold and black outer marginal border. Catchwords; spaces left for headings but not filled in. Light staining; otherwise in excellent condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold, red, and blue, in a floral pattern.

Binding note

Orange-brown leather with black leather border; gold-stamped fillets on black border. Black leather doublures. Front cover almost completely detached.

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert F. Metzdorf, 29/08/1969 (1461-47).

OCLC

764449335

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