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

Title

Shāhnāmah.
شاهنامه

Authors

• Firdawsī
  فردوسى

Other related names

• Neufeld, Philip, donor

Call number

BV 65
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135062659
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_065.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1849

Place

India?

Summary

Clear copy of the Shāhnāmah with two prefaces. Copy includes 32 illustrations and many blank spaces left in the text as if for illustrations.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 688r).
   
• Owner's inscription dated 1327 (1909) written onto f. 1r.
   

Extent

I, 690 foliated leaves : 375 x 210 (270 x 142) mm bound to 390 x 225 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 red leather over pasteboard (Type III) with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces, and 6 cartouches around the edge forming a frame; red leather pastedown and red square-and-star pattern endpapers.

Layout

Chiefly 25 lines in 4 columns; prose prefaces in 21 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first-opening in gold and blue with text on suggestion of cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); illuminated headpieces in gold or gold and blue before each section (f. 15r, 21v, 227v, 406v, 566v); 32 illustrations, some incomplete (f. 24v, 46r, 47v, 50v, 55v, 151v, 154v, 224v-225r, 361r, 364v, 365v, 372v, 380v, 383v, 433v, 436r, 438v-439r, 446v, 448r, 453v, 462r, 469v, 488r, 494r, 497v, 502r, 513r, 526v, 602v, 628v). Textblock border ruled in gold and blue with page-opening framed in black rule. Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Philip Neufeld, in memory of Margaret Neufeld.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Epic poetry, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, 19th century

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Blind-tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Special Collections BV 65: Shāhnāmah. 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 — Shāhnāmah.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Inscription
• fol. 3v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 4r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 15r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 15v — Table
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 16v — Table
• fol. 17r — Table
• fol. 18r — Table
• fol. 18v — Table
• fol. 19r — Table
• fol. 19v — Table
• fol. 20r — Table
• fol. 20v — Table
• fol. 22v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 24v — Illustration
• fol. 46r — Illustration
• fol. 47v — Illustration
• fol. 50v — Illustration
• fol. 55v — Illustration
• fol. 151v — Illustration
• fol. 154v — Illustration
• fol. 224v — Illustration
• fol. 225r — Illustration
• fol. 227v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 361r — Illustration
• fol. 364v — Illustration
• fol. 365v — Illustration
• fol. 372v — Illustration
• fol. 380v — Illustration
• fol. 383v — Illustration
• fol. 406v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 433v — Illustration
• fol. 436r — Illustration
• fol. 438v — Illustration
• fol. 439r — Illustration
• fol. 446v — Illustration
• fol. 448r — Illustration
• fol. 453v — Illustration
• fol. 462r — Illustration
• fol. 469v — Illustration
• fol. 488r — Illustration
• fol. 494r — Illustration
• fol. 497v — Illustration
• fol. 502r — Illustration
• fol. 513r — Illustration
• fol. 526v — Illustration
• fol. 566v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 602v — Illustration
• fol. 628v — Illustration