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

Title

Laylī va Majnūn.
[ليلى و مجنون]

Authors

• Maktabī Shīrāzī, -1510 or 1511
  مکتبى شيرازى،
• 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 83
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515767
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124678925
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_083.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515767

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1850?

Place

India?

Summary

Illustrated copy of the story of Laylī and Majnūn in illustrated lacquered boards.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 77, i leaves : 157 x 100 (125 x 80) mm, bound to 162 x 112 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in illustrated lacquered boards. The outside covers are the same and depict flowers and birds in reds and oranges framed in three frames, from inside to outside, a black with gold flowers followed by a red with green and gold flowers and another black with gold flowers. Front inside cover depicts a scene of five people eating and being served. Back inside cover also depicts five people drinking or serving; visible outside the window, four men and four boars.

Layout

15 lines in two columns; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Illuminated first page-opening with illuminated headpiece in blue, red, and gold with intricate gold floral marginal fill and gold between the rows and columns of text (f. 1v-2r). 13 polychrome and gold illustrations (f. 12v, 15r, 17r, 20v, 22v, 26r, 28r, 33v, 39v, 42r, 47r, 49v, 74v)

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq with elements of shikastah in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Laylī va Majnūn].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 12v — Illustration
• fol. 15r — Illustration
• fol. 17r — Illustration
• fol. 20v — Illustration
• fol. 22v — Illustration
• fol. 26r — Illustration
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 33v — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 42r — Illustration
• fol. 47r — Illustration
• fol. 49v — Illustration
• fol. 74v — Illustration