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Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of the author's poems, arranged alphabetically within each genre.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in shikastah in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; headings in red. A few marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors; record follows Western foliation. Damp staining along upper edge and outer corner; a few paper repairs. In good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed the last day of Rabīʻ II 1032 H [2 March 1623] (fol. 377a).

Binding note

Full black leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and gold-painted fillets; blue paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Fol. 2a-221a: [al-Qaṣāʾid]
• fol. 221a-321b: al-Muqaṭṭaʻāt
• fol. 322a-361b: al-Ghazalīyāt
• fol. 361b-377a: al-Rubāʻīyāt.

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Provenance

Note dated 1254 H [1838 or 9] on inner front cover. Two owner's stamps on fol. 377a.

OCLC

796840074

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