Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—15th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Iran—15th century [Browse]

Contains

• Shams Maghribī, Muḥammad Shīrīn, 1349?-1406 or 1407. Poems. [Browse]
• شمس مغربى، محمد شىرىن، 1349?-1406 or 1407. دىوان. [Browse]
• Āz̲arī Isfarāyinī, Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī Malik, 1382 or 1383-1461 or 1462. Dīvān. [Browse]
• آذرى اسفراىنى، حمزه بن على ملک، 1382 or 1383-1461 or 1462. دىوان. [Browse]

Summary note

Two early calligraphic copies of the dīvāns of Shams Maghribī and Āz̲arī Isfarāyinī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge.
• Physical description: 14 lines per page, in two columns; written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on high-quality creamy glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text and columns framed in gold. Catchwords; marginal notes and verses in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. Mild staining, smudging, and insect damage. In excellent condition.
• Decoration: On leaf 1a is an illuminated shamsah delicately finished with gold, blue, brown and black floral and arabesque scrolling, using a colour palette characteristically seen in Turkman illumination. Similar detail can be seen in the illuminated scrolling on leaves 1b and 2a and the illuminated ʻunwāns on leaves 1b and 78b, where the illuminated cartouche is contained in a knot-work border. All illuminations are somewhat smudged.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 22 Jumādá II 874 H [27 December 1469] (leaf 76a). Text 2 likely completed around the same time. Likely from western Iran.

Binding note

Three quarter maroon leather with flap; gold-stamped fillets and gold-tooling on flap hinge; marbled paper covers; blue paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-76a: Dīvān-i Maghribī.
• 2. leaves 78b-119b: Dīvān-i Āz̲arī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Sam Fogg Ltd., 2013/06/25 (2013-125).

OCLC

850922878

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