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

Title

Authors

• Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī, active 17th century
  طغراى مشهدى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Jān Sipār Khān ibn Rustamdilkhān, -1701?, former owner
  جان سپار خان بن رستمدلخان،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515788
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124682499
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_084.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515788

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1710

Place

India?

Summary

A poem in praise of the fourth Caliph, ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, copied onto gold sprinkled paper.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   
• An owner's stamp and note (f. 1r). The name in the note is Jān Sipār Khān ibn Rustamdilkhān ibn Jān Sipār Khān al-Ḥusaynī al-Mukhtār al-Sabzawārī; the note also mentions that this was a gift from Nawwāb Ṣāḥib Qiblah Nawwāb Mukhtār Khān in the year 1122 A.H. (1710 CE). The name in the seal is the same, with a different formulation: Jān Sipār Khān, Khānahʹzād-i Shah-i ʻĀlam Pādishāh Muʻaẓẓam Pādishāh-i Ghāzī, 1121 A.H., year 3.
   
• Typwritten note in purple ink pasted in: "A specimen of fine calligraphy with seal of Emperor Aurangzeb" (f. 12v).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Textblock is gold sprinkled with border-rules in gold, black and red; the last line of each stanza is in red and framed in its own section; gold rules between columns and around sections.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Jān Sipār Khān ibn Rustamdilkhān (stamp and note f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--1500-1796
• Persian literature--1500-1796
• Persian literature
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 12v — Note pasted in