Details

Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Bīdil, ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1644 or 1645-1720 or 1721. Poems. [Browse]
• بىدل، عبد القادر، 1644 or 1645-1720 or 1721. دىوان. [Browse]
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. [Browse]
• جلال الدىن رومى، مولانا، 1207-1273. دىوان شمس تبرىزى. [Browse]

Summary note

Two dīvāns of Persian poetry with 19th-century European plates.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from leaf 1a and label on back cover by a later hand.
• Additional label on back cover reads "Deevanabadeel & Shumseetubrez."
• Three 19th-century European plates from R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts have been inserted: Full Dress (between leaves 13-14), no. 73, January 1, 1822. A View of the Italian Opera House (between leaves 45-46), no. 81, September 1, 1822. Evening Dress (between leaves 143-144), August 1, 1822 [no number given].
• Physical description, text 1: 15 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in black and red with double red lines separating columns. Catchwords; text block has been trimmed. Insect damage, resulting in occasional loss of text.
• Physical description, text 2: 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on gray glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Insect damage.
• Origin: Text 2 dated 1 Jumādá 1 1249 H [16 September 1833], by Muḥammad Z̤iyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad Zayn al-Ḥaqq ʻAbbāsī al-Aḥmadābādī al-Gujarātī (leaf 161b). Text 1 likely from the early 19th century.

Binding note

Quarter cloth with leather covers.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 138W, leaves 3b-28b: Dīvān-i Bīdil
• 139W, leaves 30b-161b: Dīvān-i Shams.

Provenance

Price of 13 rupees given on leaf 1a. Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

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

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 12, 36

Other title(s)

Repository of arts, literature fashions &c. 1822. Selections.

OCLC

851511190

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