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

Title

Khamsah.
خمسه

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  نظامى گنجوى،

Other related names

• Ibrāhīm ibn Shāhrukh, Sulṭān, -1435, former owner
  ابراهيم بن شاهرخ,
• Ḥāfiẓ, Ḥasan, active 15th century, scribe
  حافظ، حسن،
• Spitzer, Doreen Canaday, donor

Call number

BV 51
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135061844
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_051.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1405 and 1414?

Place

Shiraz, Iran

Summary

Incomplete copy of the Khamsah containing small portions of Makhzan al-asrār, most of Laylī va Majnūn, about half of Khusraw va Shirīn, and the first third of Haft Paykar; Iskandarnāmah is missing. 24 color illustrations, some unfinished.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 6r).
   

Extent

183 foliated leaves : 108 x 67 (73 x 50) mm bound to 110 x 75 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered binding of flowers on a black field with floral frame; inside covers have a brown field with black frame and three gold tooled inset frames. Slipcase with "Collected poems in Persian" printed on it in gold.

Layout

Written in 19 lines in four columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated medallion in gold and blue on opening page (f. 3r); dual-page illuminated first full opening (f. 3v-4r) in gold and blue with text on cloudbands; 24 color illustrations, some incomplete (f. 5r, 8r, 12r, 14r, 15r, 18v, 27v, 33r, 38v, 55r, 57v, 60v, 68v, 73v, 82r, 92v, 101r, 107r, 108r, 121v, 131r, 134r, 134v, 142r, 158v); illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 111v); textblock is border ruled in gold, including between columns; titles in gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Doreen Canaday Spitzer.
   
• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm Sulṭān ibn Shāhrukh (decorative owner's statement, f. 3r).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 51: Khamsah. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v — Khamsah.
• fol. 111v — Haft paykar

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Illuminated medallion
• fol. 3v — Illuminated dual-page opening
• fol. 4r — Illuminated dual-page opening
• fol. 5r — Illustration
• fol. 8r — Illustration
• fol. 12r — Illustration
• fol. 14r — Illustration
• fol. 15r — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Illustration
• fol. 27v — Illustration
• fol. 33r — Illustration
• fol. 38v — Illustration
• fol. 55r — Illustration
• fol. 57v — Illustration
• fol. 60v — Illustration
• fol. 68v — Illustration
• fol. 73v — Illustration
• fol. 82r — Illustration
• fol. 92v — Illustration
• fol. 101r — Illustration
• fol. 107r — Illustration
• fol. 108r — Illustration
• fol. 111v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 121v — Illustration
• fol. 131r — Illustration
• fol. 134v — Illustration
• fol. 142r — Illustration
• fol. 158v — Illustration