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

Title

Anvār-i Suhaylī.
انوار سهيلى

Authors

• Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
  كاشفي، حسين واعظ، 1504- يا 1505
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1831, former owner
  حسيني، عبد الرحمن،
• Hādī ibn Bahāʼ al-Dīn, active 1822, scribe
  هادي بن بهاء الدين،
• Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• American Art Association, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 49
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515779
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679320
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_049.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515779

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1822

Place

Iran?

Summary

Persian adaptation of animal fables.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 148v).
   
• Catalog entries pasted onto last flyleaf verso: lot 513 in French, lot 375 in English.
   
• Notes (f. 149v) and one owner's stamp, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī, 1247, (f. 2r).
   

Watermark

Bellando in all capital letters; countermark: B.

Extent

149 leaves : 276 x 172 (220 x 110) mm, bound to 278 x 173 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered boards; outside covers depict flowers and birds on a reddish ground with a gold frame; inside covers have a central mandorla containing a bird and flowers and two pendants on the vertical axis each with a bunch of flowers depicted all on a black ground with gold floral fill, surrounded by a gold, patterened frame.

Layout

27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Textblock of first opening border-ruled in gold and black with the top of the first page ruled in gold and blue as if for a headpiece, but left unilluminated (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī in 1247 A.H. (1831 or 1832 CE) (f. 2r).
   
• Sold at an American Art Association auction, Selections from the Charles F. Gunther collection : sold by order of the Chicago Historical Society, 12 November 1925, lot 375.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Fables, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Anvār-i Suhaylī.

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Stamp
• fol. 149v — Notations
• fol. 149v — Catalog entries