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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A collection of poetry quotations by a variety of Persian poets, consisting of ghazalīyāt quotations (fol. 2b-105b) and rubāʻīyāt (fol. 105b-147a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Ms. is erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper, likely late 18th cent. Text framed in gold with marginal gold border; columns separated by double gold lines. Poets noted in red next to verses (lacking on fol. 91a-99b). Catchwords; a few marginal notes and verses. Some staining and smudging. Last four leaves partially torn away, resulting in loss of text and colophon.

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; green paper doublures. Front cover partially detached and back cover missing.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 2a: Owner's note dated Ramaḍān 1314 H [February 1897], stamp dated 1315 H [1897 or 8] (also on fol. 147b), and stamp of the Kitābkhānah-ʾi Ṣābir Ardabīl (transliterated as Librairi Saber Ardabil).

OCLC

776603294

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