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

Title

Kullīyāt.
کليات

Authors

• Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, approximately 1126-1198 or 1199
  خاقانى، افضل الدين شروانى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 60
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508419
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111686993
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_060.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508419

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1650?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of the complete works of Khāqānī with four illustrations and three illuminated page openings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   

Extent

339 leaves : 282 x 165 (174 x 100) mm bound to 282 x 180 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and cornerpieces with matching stamps on flap. Inside covers have brown leather doublure with inlay central mandorla in blue, yellow, red, and green with black filigree tracery, two pendants, cornerpieces and four notches, two on either long edge, all of which were filigree inlay, though some are now missing.

Layout

18 lines in two columns; some marginalia.

Decoration

Four polychrome illustrations in two sets of facing pages (f. 82v-83r, 185v-186r); three sets of illuminated full page openings with headpieces in gold and blue, text on cloudbands with gold and polychrome flower fill between the lines and gold floral and bird marginal fill (f. 1v-2r, 9v-10r, 256v-257r); textblock border ruled in gold and blue; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Persian literature--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Filigree
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Inlaying

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kullīyāt
• fol. 1v — Dībājah
• fol. 9v — Dīvān
• fol. 256v — Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in pencil
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Cloudbands
• fol. 1v — Marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Cloudbands
• fol. 2r — Illuminated borders
• fol. 2r — Marginal fill
• fol. 9v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 9v — Cloudbands
• fol. 9v — Marginal fill
• fol. 10r — Cloudbands
• fol. 10r — Illuminated borders
• fol. 10r — Marginal fill
• fol. 82v — Illustration
• fol. 83r — Illustration
• fol. 185v — Illustration
• fol. 186r — Illustration
• fol. 256v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 256v — Cloudbands
• fol. 256v — Marginal fill
• fol. 257r — Cloudbands
• fol. 257r — Illuminated borders
• fol. 257r — Marginal fill