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Subject(s)

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

Related name

• هاتفى، d. 1520 or 21. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Viṣāl Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, 1782 or 1783-1845 or 1846. Mutammim-i Farhād va Shīrīn. [Browse]
• وصال شىرازى، محمد شفىع بن محمد اسماعىل، 1782 or 1783-1845 or 1846. متمم فرهاد و شىرىن . [Browse]
• Hātifī, d. 1520 or 21. Poems. [Browse]
• Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1822 or 1823. ʻIbratnāmah. [Browse]
• صبا، فتح على بن محمد، d. 1822 or 3. عابرتنامه. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Persian poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 35a.
• On spine: Label reading "Farhād Shīrīn Vaḥshī va Viṣāl va Hātif" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in shikastah in black on machine-made paper. Fol. 36a-79b written on a diagonal, 10 lines per page. Rubrication in violet and catchwords. Marginal poetry by a different hand. First few leaves missing; first leaf repaired. Inserts. Some tears, damp staining and smudging, resulting in some loss of text on fol. 95. Text block almost completely detached from binding.
• Origin: 10 Rabīʻ II 1287 H [10 July 1870] (fol. 95a).

Binding note

Contemporary full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; purple paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-35a: Farhād va Shīrīn / min kalām-i Mawlānā Vaḥshī Bāfqī. Incomplete at beginning.
• 2. fol. 1a-41a (margins): [Poems] / Hātif. Poetry on margins of scattered pages in remainder of ms. possibly by same author.
• 3. fol. 35a-83a: Mutammim-i Farhād [va] Shīrīn / min kalām-i Mawlānā Viṣāl Shīrāzī.
• 4. fol. 83a-95a: [ʻIbratnāmah / Ṣabā].

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Provenance

Owner's note of Muḥammad valad-i ... Aḥmad on inner front cover. The date 1941 is noted on fol. 1a, 2a. Owner's stamp of Shuʻāʻ on fol. 1a, 95a. Owner's note and stamp (bearing the date 1343) of Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Shaykh Muḥammad.

References

• Rieu, C. Catologue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 663 (no. 3)
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XV, 213

OCLC

812453582

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