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Title

Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih.
شاه قاسم وغيره من تصانيفه

Authors

• Qāsim Anvār, ʻAlī ibn Naṣīr, 1356-1433
  قاسم انوار، على بن نصير،

Other related names

• Mignan, Robert, -1852, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 43
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954043173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/770720606
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5404317

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1599

Place

Iran?

Summary

Collection in 4 sections of rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and qaṣāʼid (odes). Sparse marginalia, some in the text language and some later notes in English.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

258 leaves : 208 x 116 (132 x 68) mm. bound to 208 x 130 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached.

Layout

Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Decoration

3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely rubbed away on many leaves.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq script.

Provenance

• Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (ms. 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   
• Early ownership stamps (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic poetry--Early works to 1800
• Arabic poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Poems
• Early works

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v
• fol. 198v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 198v
• fol. 221r — Illuminated headpiece, f. 221r