Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• On spine: Label reading "D Adīb Ṣābir" in Arabic script.
• On inner back cover: Label reading "12042" in Western script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page, in two columns; written in calligraphic nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in red and blue with outer red border; double red lines between columns. Paper and edges are gold-sprinkled. Catchwords. Some foxing and smudging; repairs to first two and last leaves. In good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed by Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Daylamī in 1138 H [1725 or 6] (fol. 196a).

Binding note

Full teal leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's stamp in purple ink on fol. iia.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert F. Metzdorf, 29/08/1969 (1461-38).

OCLC

795796347

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