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

Title

Vāmiq va ʻAz̲rā.
وامق و عذرا

Authors

• Mīrzā Ibrāhīm Ẓahīr Kirmānī, active 19th century
  ميرزا ابراهيم ظهير کرمانى،
• 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
• Parke-Bernet Galleries, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 154A
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515785
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679993
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_154.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515785

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian with some quotations in Arabic

Origin

Date

1890-1899

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of the story of Vāmiq and ʻAz̲rā with numerous brightly colored full-page illustrations; the illustrations all have a blank space left on the reverse side of the leaf and blank leaves have been tipped in around the illustrations and full-page illuminations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 8r).
   
• Numerous customs stamps dated 1305 (1927), including one stamp on each illustration and at the front and back of the book.
   

Extent

V, 314, v leaves : 251 x 140 (175 x 85) mm bound to 265 x 150 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in lacquered boards; outside boards depict birds and flowers on a black field with a gold frame; inside covers are bright orange with a gold-painted mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis and double frames; edges are spattered with red.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening in beige, pink and blue (f. 1v-3r [f. 2 is a blank tipped-in leaf]), illuminated border-rules with flowers in orange and pink lined in black, gold, red, and blue (f. 3v); illuminated headpiece of a pink oval with darker pink frame and flowers in the corners (f. 5r), several full-page illustrations in bright colors (f. 7r, 15r, 20r, 23r, 31v, 43r, 48r, 61r, 70r, 79r, 86r, 100r, 112v, 120r, 130r, 139r, 144v, 151r, 159r, 171v, 176r, 179v, 184r, 188r, 193r, 201r, 217r, 223r, 232v, 241r, 247v, 254r, 262r, 267r, 271r, 285r, 296r); illuminated finispiece in blue with stems and flower decorations in the corners (f. 314v).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Thomas Henry Foster (sold at the sale of his books, 1957).
   
• Sold by Parke-Bernet, either 30 April 1957 or 3 December 1957.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 154A: Vāmiq va ʻAz̲rā. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book Department Lewis O 154A: Vāmiq va ʻAz̲rā.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Vāmiq va ʻAz̲rā.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 3r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 3v — Illuminated border rules
• fol. 5r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 7r — Illustration
• fol. 15r — Illustration
• fol. 20r — Illustration
• fol. 23r — Illustration
• fol. 31v — Illustration
• fol. 43r — Illustration
• fol. 48r — Illustration
• fol. 61r — Illustration
• fol. 70r — Illustration
• fol. 79r — Illustration
• fol. 86r — Illustration
• fol. 100r — Illustration
• fol. 112v — Illustration
• fol. 120r — Illustration
• fol. 130r — Illustration
• fol. 139r — Illustration
• fol. 144v — Illustration
• fol. 151r — Illustration
• fol. 159r — Illustration
• fol. 171v — Illustration
• fol. 176r — Illustration
• fol. 179v — Illustration
• fol. 184r — Illustration
• fol. 188r — Illustration
• fol. 193r — Illustration
• fol. 201r — Illustration
• fol. 217r — Illustration
• fol. 223r — Illustration
• fol. 232v — Illustration
• fol. 241r — Illustration
• fol. 247v — Illustration
• fol. 254r — Illustration
• fol. 262r — Illustration
• fol. 267r — Illustration
• fol. 271r — Illustration
• fol. 285r — Illustration
• fol. 296r — Illustration
• fol. 314v — Illuminated finispiece