Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505 [Browse]
• کاشفى، حسىن واعظ، -1504 or 1505 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal correspondence [Browse]

Summary note

Persian adaptation of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a by a later hand.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Paginated in Arabic script in pencil. Marginal staining and occasional smudging. Fol. 1-4, 157-258 detached. In good condition.
• Origin: 6 Jumādá I 1232 H [24 March 1817], Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Qummī (fol. 258a).

Binding note

Contemporary full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner pieces, and fillets; blue paper doublure. Back cover missing.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, note dated Ramaḍān [?] 1351 H [1932]. Owner's stamp on fol. 1b.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 756

OCLC

809241679

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