Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Khamsah.
[خمسه]

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  ‏نظامى گنجوى،‏

Other related names

• Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903, former owner

Call number

X892.8 N651 Folio
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14214036
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108338020
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_N651.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14214036

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

16--?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Lacunose, illustrated copy of the Quintet, containing all of Iskandarnāmah and Laylī va Majnūn. Makhzan al-asrār is missing the beginning and the end; Haft paykar ends abruptly, and Khusraw va Shīrīn is missing all but the final page. This copy contains 19 full-page illustrations, numerous gold and polychrome decorative text division markers and foliate in-fill around angled lines and at the end of each work.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Series of 11 inspection notes dated 1221-1229 AH /1806-1814 CE (f. 1r). Three seals (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Ii, 308, ii leaves : 285 x 165 (195 x 105) mm, bound to 300 x 185 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Marbled brown leather with gold tooled frame; brightly painted doublure of flower arrangments on bright turquoise and maroon lobed grounds with white and gold borders.

Layout

21 lines in four columns; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Decoration

Headpieces in blue and gold before each new work (f. 1v, 132v, 188v). Foliate text division markers with blue borders and delicate, leafy scrolls with small, polychrome flowers. Foliate fill in gold, silver, and orange between angled lines, often before illustrations (see as examples f. 33v, 78r, 84v-85r). 19 full-page illustrations (f.12r, 34r, 45r, 78v, 117v, 142v, 172r, 199r, 206r, 213r, 220r, 223v, 228r, 232r, 238r, 243r, 268r, 293r, 306v). Textblock is border-ruled in double gold and blue with gold double rules between the columns.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Purchased for Columbia with funds donated by John Dyneley Prince, James Speyer and Jacob H. Schiff; accessioned 1905 (library bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Khamsah]
• fol. 1v — Sharaf-nāmah-ʼi Iskandarī
• fol. 131r — Final page of Khusraw va Shīrīn
• fol. 131v — Laylī va Majnūn
• fol. 187v — Haft paykar
• fol. 256r — Makhzan al-asrār

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 12r — Illustration
• fol. 33v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 45r — Illustration
• fol. 78r — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 78v — Illustration
• fol. 84v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 85r — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 97v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 117r — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 117v — Illustration
• fol. 131r — Foliate in-fill
• fol. 131v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 141v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 142v — Illustration
• fol. 160v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 171v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 172r — Illustration
• fol. 179v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 186v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 187r — Foliate in-fill
• fol. 187v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 198v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 199r — Illustration
• fol. 206r — Illustration
• fol. 212v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 213r — Illustration
• fol. 219v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 220r — Illustration
• fol. 222v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 223r — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 223v — Illustration
• fol. 228r — Illustration
• fol. 232r — Illustration
• fol. 237v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 238r — Illustration
• fol. 242v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 243r — Illustration
• fol. 267v — Angled lines with foliate in-fill
• fol. 268r — Illustration
• fol. 281v — Illustration
• fol. 282r — Angled lines with foliate in-fill