Details

Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Leaf from chapter 29 of the Mūnis al-aḥrār, a collection of poetry. Each verse alternates with a corresponding illustration as follows: battle gear; weapons; fruit trees; four types of doves; peacock, parrot, and nightingale; and jewelry.

Notes

• Ms. leaf.
• Physical description: Written in large thuluth and medium naskh in gold, blue, black, and red. Each line of verse alternates with an illustration. The leaf is damaged along the bottom; it was cut out of its original frame and glued onto another page of a different text that now forms its margins.
• Origin: This page is from chapter 29 of a ms. which is now scattered. The ms. is dated Ramaḍān 741 H [February-March 1341] and was copied and illustrated in Isfahan according to its colophon (Swietochowski and Carboni, p. 25).

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

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

References

• Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 198
• Swietochowski and Carboni. Illustrated poetry and epic images, 35-36

Other format(s)

• Images of the leaf as well as transcription and translation of the text published in Swietochowski and Carboni, Illustrated poetry and epic images, p. 35-36.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

773299645

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