Details

Subject(s)

• Qājār, Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Shah of Iran -1834 [Browse]
• Iran—History—Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Epic poem narrating the wars fought during the reign of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Edge title.
• Physical description: 20 lines per page, in four columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in blue and gold, with outer gold border and double gold lines separating columns. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces presumably left for miniatures. Some leaves are loose and fol. 3-8 are detached. Foliated in Arabic script through fol. 220. Brown stain on upper margin of most leaves. Edges somewhat ragged; some paper repairs, mainly to the inner margins. In good condition.
• Decorations: Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold and color, with gold floral pattern in margins.
• Incipit: بنام خداوند آموزگار

Binding note

Contemporary full orange-brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces and blind-stamped fillets; dark blue paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a and fol. 430b, a stamp dated 1316 H [1898 or 9] and accompanied by the number "132." Several additional stamps on fol. 1a.

OCLC

818880248

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