Details

Subject(s)

• French language—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Iran—19th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—19th century [Browse]
• Autographs (manuscripts)—Iran—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Introduction to the French language in poetic form with a prose introduction; preceded by a Persian poem on fol. 7b-9a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 5 lines per page; written in calligraphic shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 2 blank; fol. 3a-3b, 4b-7a, 29b-31a contain text frames, but otherwise blank. Fol. 4a, 31b have pious declarations. Part of the fourth line on fol. 9b is effaced. Light staining and foxing; in excellent condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwāns marking each poem and the prose introduction, well-executed in gold and color. Section headers in red with gold and blue floral desgins in boxes on either side. Text framed in blue and gold with outer marginal gold border; columns and rows separated by double gold lines.
• Origin: Written by the author in 1297 H [1879 or 80] (fol. 29a); likely from Iran.
• Incipit (introduction): بعد از حمد و سپاس خداوند ىگانه و درود انبىاى کرام اطهار
• Incipit (text): الا اى خردمند بافر و جاى * ببحر تقارب تقرب نماى

Binding note

Limp red-brown leather with blind-stamped and tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

OCLC

795359982

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