Details

Subject(s)

• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• آصفى، -1517 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]

Contains

Āṣafī, -1517. Poems. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two dīvāns.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia and spine by later hands.
• Lower edge title: Dīvān-i Shāhī maʻa Āṣafī.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold with double gold lines separating columns. Extensive staining and smudging; fol. 1-2, 48-49, 126-127 set in new frames. Fol. 1 particularly damaged, with some loss of text. However, ms. still largely legible.
• Decoration: On fol. 1b, 49b, illuminated ʻunwāns in gold, blue, and other colors. The first is badly damaged: part of lower half is torn away and there is heavy smudging. The second is somewhat smudged in the lower half.
• Origin: 962 H [1554 or 5], Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ustādī (fol. 48a, 127a).

Binding note

Full maroon leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• fol. 1b-48a: [Dīvān-i Shāhī]
• fol. 49b-127a: [Dīvān-i Āṣafī].

Provenance

Owner's note on fol. ia. Note dated 1135 H [1722 or 3] on fol. 127b.

OCLC

819572658

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