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

Title

Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām.
منشاء انشاء الكلام

Authors

• Niẓāmī Bākharzī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ, -1503 or 1504
  نظامى باخرزى، عبد الواسع،

Call number

X892.8 P43
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15373152
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1241726028
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_P43.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15373152

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian with some Arabic quotations

Origin

Date

18--?

Summary

Copy of a text on inshāʼ (letter writing).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

I, 75 foliated leaves : 205 x 165 (137 x 90) mm, bound to 210 x 165 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Plain reddish leather over pasteboard with brown paper doublure.

Layout

Chiefly written in 8 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated headpice in blue and green (f. 1v) with foliate marginal fill in green (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in blue, black, gold; page-opening frame-ruled in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

• Persian prose literature--Early works to 1800
• Persian letters--Early works to 1800
• Letter writing, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• manuscripts (documents)
• letters (correspondence)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Marginal fill
• fol. 77v — Notations in ink