Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Iqbālnāmah-ʼi Jahāngīrī.
[اقبالنامۀ جهانگيرى]

Authors

• Muʻtamad Khān, Muḥammad Sharīf, -1639 or 1640
  معتمد خان، محمد شريف،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Raʻnā Khān, associated name
  رعنا خان.
• ʻAlī Amjad Khān, active 1727, associated name
  على امجد خان،
• Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Anderson Auction Company, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 44
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2455303
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101189594
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2455303

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

16--?

Place

India?

Summary

Second volume of the history of Jahangir and his predecessors, containing a history of Emperor Akbar. This volume begins with the ascension of Akbar and continues through the 45th year of his reign. 54 illustrations; partially rubricated.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two seals which may indicate ownership. The smaller seal has the name Raʻnā Khān and the larger, with the name ʻAlī Amjad Khān, is dated to the year 8 of the reign of Muḥammad Shāh (1727) (f. 1r).
   

Extent

276 leaves : 365 x 202 (275 x 131) mm bound to 375 x 235 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in illustrated lacquered covers with a black, leather spine. On the outside covers, a group plays music and two people dance in front of two seated men and their attendants; the image is framed by panels holding verses. On the inside covers, a large yellow flower on a red field

Layout

21 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1v); numerous illustrations in bright colors, mostly full-page size, some oriented along the fore-edge (f. 2v, 4v, 10v, 18r, 18v, 22r, 31v, 36v, 39v, 45v, 48v, 59r, 69r, 76v, 77r, 78v, 87r, 90v, 94r, 95v, 98v-99r, 102r, 104v, 114v, 116r, 120v, 126r, 129r, 139r, 143v, 150r, 159r, 167r, 171r, 178r, 181v, 186r, 187r, 189r, 193v, 203r, 210v, 214v, 234v, 237v, 238r, 250v, 255v, 262r, 267r, 274r), numerous floral text division bands of gold and colors in a variety of patterns that do not repeat. Rubrications in red and gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Robert Hoe (bookplate on back endpaper verso).
   
• Sold at the Robert Hoe sale (Part II) Anderson Auction Company (New York), 16 January 1912, lot 2419 (notes in pencil, first and second to last flyleaves).
   
• Catalog entry from Carolyn Shipman, "A catalogue of manuscripts forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe" (New York, 1909), p. 207-208 is pasted onto the second to last flyleaf verso.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate second to last flyleaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century
• Kings and rulers
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Biography
• Early works
• History
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 44: Iqbālnāmah-ʼi Jahāngīrī. 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. 1v — [Iqbālnāmah-ʼi Jahāngīrī].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamps
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2v — Illustration
• fol. 4v — Illustration
• fol. 10v — Illustration
• fol. 18r — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Illustration
• fol. 19v — Text division marker
• fol. 22r — Illustration
• fol. 22v — Text division marker
• fol. 31v — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Text division marker
• fol. 36v — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 45v — Illustration
• fol. 48v — Illustration
• fol. 54v — Illustration
• fol. 55v — Text division marker
• fol. 59r — Illustration
• fol. 62v — Illustration
• fol. 69r — Illustration
• fol. 76v — Illustration
• fol. 77r — Illustration
• fol. 77v — Text division marker
• fol. 78v — Illustration
• fol. 82v — Text division marker
• fol. 87r — Illustration
• fol. 90v — Illustration
• fol. 93v — Text division marker
• fol. 94r — Illustration
• fol. 95v — Illustration
• fol. 96r — Text division marker
• fol. 98v — Illustration
• fol. 99r — Illustration
• fol. 100v — Text division marker
• fol. 102r — Illustration
• fol. 102v — Text division marker
• fol. 104v — Text division marker
• fol. 104v — Illustration
• fol. 114v — Illustration
• fol. 116r — Illustration
• fol. 116v — Text division marker
• fol. 120v — Illustration
• fol. 126r — Illustration
• fol. 129r — Illustration
• fol. 130r — Text division marker
• fol. 139r — Illustration
• fol. 142v — Illuminated flower
• fol. 143v — Illustration
• fol. 150r — Illustration
• fol. 152v — Text division marker
• fol. 159r — Illustration
• fol. 161v — Text division marker
• fol. 166r — Text division marker
• fol. 167r — Illustration
• fol. 170v — Text division marker
• fol. 170v — Text division marker
• fol. 171r — Illustration
• fol. 178r — Illustration
• fol. 181v — Illustration
• fol. 186r — Illustration
• fol. 186v — Text division marker
• fol. 187r — Illustration
• fol. 189r — Illustration
• fol. 193v — Illustration
• fol. 195r — Text division marker
• fol. 198v — Text division marker
• fol. 203r — Illustration
• fol. 209v — Text division marker
• fol. 210v — Illustration
• fol. 214v — Illustration
• fol. 216v — Illustration
• fol. 223r — Text division marker
• fol. 230r — Text division marker
• fol. 232v — Text division marker
• fol. 233v — Text division marker
• fol. 234v — Illustration
• fol. 237v — Illustration
• fol. 238r — Illustration
• fol. 238v — Text division marker
• fol. 241r — Text division marker
• fol. 250v — Illustration
• fol. 253r — Text division marker
• fol. 255v — Illustration
• fol. 256r — Text division marker
• fol. 259r — Text division marker
• fol. 261v — Text division marker
• fol. 262r — Illustration
• fol. 264v — Text division marker
• fol. 267r — Illustration
• fol. 267v — Text division marker
• fol. 270v — Text division marker
• fol. 274r — Illustration