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Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Summary note

Richly illuminated collection of the author's poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2b.
• On fol. ia: Label reading "Douane Centrale Paris."
• Physical description: 19 lines per page, in three columns; outer column 12 lines and written on a diagonal. Written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Fol. 329b to end written in red and black. Written surface gold-sprinkled and framed in blue and gold; columns separated by double gold lines. Headings in red; catchwords. Lacuna after fol. 367, and fol. 368 is a blank replacement. Last seven leaves loose. A few paper repairs and light staining; otherwise in excellent condition.
• Decorations: Lavishly illuminated double-page ʻunwāns in gold and colors mark the beginning of each section, except for texts 9-12, 14-15 which begin with small illuminated headings; titles in white on gold ground. On pages with double-page ʻunwāns, text set within clouds on gold ground decorated with delicate floral pattern, and margins embellished with large floral/folial pattern.
• Origin: Copy completed by Muḥammad Muʾmin al-Shīrāzī in Rajab 1028 H [June 1619] (fol. 375a).

Binding note

Full maroon leather with flap; decorated with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and corner pieces and gold-tooled fillets. Two hemi-stitches of poetry gold-stamped on fore edge of flap. Maroon leather doublures with central mandorla, pendants, corner pieces, and border in gold filigree on multi-colored background.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-2a: [Chronogram of date of author's death in central medallions and list of contents in border panels].
• 2. fol. 2b-3a: Dībāchah-i Dīvān-i Ahlī Shīrāzī.
• 3. fol. 3a-13a: Kitāb-i Siḥr-i ḥalāl.
• 4. fol. 13b-34a: Shamʻ va parvānah.
• 5. fol. 34b-90a: Qaṣīdah.
• 6. fol. 90b-281a: Ghazalīyāt-i Mawlānā Ahlī.
• 7. fol. 281b-287a: Muqaṭṭaʻāt.
• 8. fol. 287b-300a: Sāqīʹnāmah. Includes a prose introduction.
• 9. fol. 300a-310a: Zubdat al-akhlāq rubāʻī.
• 10. fol. 310a-316b: Favāyid al-qaṣāyid.
• 11. fol. 316b-325b: Mutafarraqāt.
• 12. fol. 325b-328a: Muʻammayāt-i Mīr Karīm bi-ṭarīq-i lughz.
• 13. fol. 328b-342b: Qaṣīdah-i maṣnūʻah dar madḥ-i Mīr ʻAlī Shīr.
• 14. fol. 343b-359a: Qaṣīdah-i maṣnūʻah dar madḥ-i Yaʻqūb Khān Bek.
• 15. fol. 359b-375a: Qaṣīdah-i maṣnūʻah dar madḥ-i Sulṭān Shāh Ismāʻīl.

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Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 28

OCLC

772468552

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