Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of moral anecdotes in prose and verse.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper with chain lines in groups of three. On leaf 1b, small, delicately illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color, in good condition; on leaves 1b-2a, text framed in gold and set within clouds on light gold ground. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining, particularly toward end of manuscript; some paper repairs and insect damage. In fair condition.
• Incipit: چو مرغ امر ذى بال ز آغاز * نه از نيروى حمد آيد به پرواز

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets; edges and spine repaired.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Several stamps and notes on leaf 1a: two notes by Ahmad ibn Muʾmin al-Anṭākī, dated 1090 H [1679 or 1680]; stamp of Sayyid Muḥammad; three other stamps which are somewhat blurred. On leaf 99b, note dated 974 H [1566 or 1577]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, II, 775

OCLC

842966059

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