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

Title

Shāhnāmah.
شاهنامه

Authors

• Firdawsī
  فردوسي
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥammad Jaʻfar, active 1763, former owner
  محمد جعفر،
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 51
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450056
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091899941
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450056

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1650? and 1738

Place

Iran?

Summary

Complete copy beginning with the 'older preface' and 23 miniatures; the colophon is missing from the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from beginning of text (f. 8v).
   

Extent

467 leaves : 360 x 237 (225 x 130) mm bound to 365 x 250 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown shagreen over pasteboard (Type III); inlaid gold-stamped central mandorla, six pendants (4 vertical, 2 horizontal) and cornerpieces. Faint green tracery still visible connecting the four pendants on the vertical axis and the central mandorla.

Layout

After the first opening, pages generally laid out in 25 lines per page in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled and pages frame-ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening chiefly in gold and blue with the text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); illuminated headpiece in gold and blue on first opening after the preface (f. 7v). 23 miniatures in bright colors (f. 10r, 25r, 33v, 60v, 90r, 98v, 117r, 130r, 154r, 165r, 182v, 222r, 244r, 258r, 275v, 292r, 317r, 356r, 366v, 395r, 437v, 447r, 466r). Textblock border-ruled in double gold and blue. Rubrications in red and gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Jaʻfar (note dated 1177 A.H. (1763 or 1764) on f. 1r)
   
• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate on first flyleaf recto, at front of book).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Epic poetry, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Epic poems
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Shāhnāmah.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry pasted in
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1r — Stamps
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2v — Stamp
• fol. 7v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 10r — Illustration
• fol. 25r — Illustration
• fol. 33v — Illustration
• fol. 60v — Illustration
• fol. 90r — Illustration
• fol. 98v — Illustration
• fol. 117r — Illustration
• fol. 130r — Illustration
• fol. 154r — Illustration
• fol. 165r — Illustration
• fol. 182v — Illustration
• fol. 222r — Illustration
• fol. 244r — Illustration
• fol. 258r — Illustration
• fol. 275v — Illustration
• fol. 292r — Illustration
• fol. 317r — Illustration
• fol. 356r — Illustration
• fol. 366v — Illustration
• fol. 395r — Illustration
• fol. 437v — Illustration
• fol. 447r — Illustration
• fol. 455v — Illustration