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

Title

Sharafnāmah.
[شرفنامه]

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  نظامى گنجوى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Niẓām al-Dīn, active 1832, scribe
  نظام الدين،
• Rosenbach, Philip H. 1863-1953, associated name
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 65
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508418
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111686937
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_065.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508418

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1248 (1832)

Place

India?

Summary

Illustrated copy of the Sharafnāmah, the first part of the Iskandarnāmah of Niẓāmī. Text has been rebound and some marginal notes have been trimmed.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 138, i leaves : 232 x 144 (202 x 100) mm bound to 240 x 150 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Bound in modern cardboard in dark green cloth; plain yellow paper pastedowns.

Layout

13 lines in two columns with 26 lines at angles along the three outer margins; border-ruled

Decoration

Headpiece in gold, blue and pink (f. 1v); each page opening has the text written on the suggestion of cloudbands with gold fill between the lines, purple and orange flowers on a gold field appear in triangles in the inner, upper and lower corners and in the center of the outer edge to divide the two sets of marginal lines, slightly wavy gold rules appear between each of the marginal lines and a intercolumnal decoration of purple and orange flowers on a wide gold rule appear between the two columns of text in the main text block. The inner and outer textblocks are ruled in blue and gold. Headings in dark blue ink on a gold background. 15 illustrations primarily in red, blue, green and purple with some gold accents (f. 5r, 13v, 22v, 30v, 34r, 43v, 51v, 62v, 72v, 75v, 81v, 92v, 100v, 103v, 121v).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold at the Oriental manuscripts, miniatures and works of art sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London), 18 June, 1923, lot 77.
   
• Purchased through P.H. Rosenbach in London 1923 (note in pencil, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Sharafnāmah].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Illuminated corners (every page)
• fol. 1v — Illuminated intercolumn (every page)
• fol. 5r — Illustration
• fol. 13v — Illustration
• fol. 22v — Illustration
• fol. 29v — Foliate fill
• fol. 30r — Foliate fill
• fol. 30v — Illustration
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 43v — Illustration
• fol. 51v — Illustration
• fol. 62v — Illustration
• fol. 72v — Illustration
• fol. 75v — Illustration
• fol. 81r — Illustration
• fol. 92v — Illustration
• fol. 100v — Illustration
• fol. 103v — Illustration
• fol. 121v — Illustration