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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; missing leaves at beginning and end.

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. Damp staining across upper edge; a few paper repairs, particularly to first few leaves. Edges ragged; fol. 1-4 detached and many leaves are very loose. Incomplete at beginning and end.

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards; original doublures are gold-sprinkled red paper and have been partially covered with blue paper. Front cover almost completely detached. Damage to back cover has left a hole.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Fol. 1b-179b: [al-Qaṣāʾid]
• fol. 180a-257b: [al-Muqaṭṭaʻāt]
• fol. 257b-262a: [al-Mas̲navīyāt]
• fol. 262a-309a: [al-Ghazalīyāt]
• fol. 309a-315b: [al-Rubāʻīyāt].

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Provenance

Owner's stamps on fol. 1a (smudged), 262a, 315b (Muḥammad al-Riḍawī) and throughout ms. Owner's note of Āqā Mīrzā Muḥammad Ṣādiq on fol. ib, iib.

OCLC

798270552

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