Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Subḥat al-abrār.
سبحت الابرار

Authors

• Jāmī, 1414-1492
  جامى،

Other related names

• Kishvarī, Niʻmat Allāh ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbdīn Rūdbārī, active 1529, scribe
  كشورى، نعمة الله بن زين العابدين رودبارى،

Call number

BV 49
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135062170
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_049.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1529 or 1530

Summary

Acephalous copy, nearly the first half is missing; text begins with Ḥikayat-i ān shīr-i zan-i mūṣalī; two color illustrations.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 6r).
   
• Stamp (mostly scrubbed) (f. 79v).
   

Extent

79, i leaves : 204 x 125 (134 x 73) mm bound to 207 x 125 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Arabic-Hindu numerals in red and black ink, top, left recto, begins after the prefaces; catchwords each verso, lower left. Continuous modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; references in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, inner and outer frames. Pastedowns of plain paper covered in pen tests and notations.

Layout

Written in 12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Texblock and between columns border ruled in gold. Two illustrations (f. 19v, 44r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Masnavis, Persian--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Blind-tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Subḥat al-abrār.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 19v — Illustration
• fol. 44r — Illustration
• fol. 79v — Stamp (mostly scrubbed)
• Inside back cover — Notations