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

Title

Hādhā kitāb qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ.
هذا كتاب قصص الانبياء

Authors

• Juvayrī, Muḥammad, active 10th century
  جويرى، محمد،

Other related names

• Kātib, Malik Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad, active 1574, scribe
  كاتب، ملك محمد بن درويش محمد،
• Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903, former owner

Call number

X892.8 Q1 Q [Folio]
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011109
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106031987
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_Q1_Q.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011109

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1574

Place

Iran ?

Summary

An illustrated translation into Persian of a collection of stories of the patriarchs and prophets from the creation to the time of Muḥammad. This collection begins by saying the translation was requested by the (fictitious) Sulṭān Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muẓaffar Khān.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from caption (f. 1v); alternate title from introduction (f. 2r).
   

Extent

Iii, 228, ii leaves : 310 x 203 (230 x 120) mm, bound to 320 x 210 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with marbled paper pastedowns.

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in narrow gold, wide gold and blue; rubrications in red; illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v), 30 color illustrations (f. 7v, 11r, 19r, 22r, 28r, 31v, 36r, 48v, 50v, 52v, 63v, 70r, 75r, 79v, 85v, 90v, 104v, 112v, 114v, 127v, 133r, 139v, 154r, 162r, 167r, 182v, 190v, 198r, 206v, 210r), and an illuminated foliate finispiece in gold (f. 228r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Prophets, Pre-Islamic--Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Qiṣaṣ al-'anbiyā'

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Donation bookplate: "Messrs Prince, Speyer & Schiff"
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 7v — Illustration
• fol. 11r — Illustration
• fol. 19r — Illustration
• fol. 22r — Illustration
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 31v — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 48v — Illustration
• fol. 50v — Illustration
• fol. 52v — Illustration
• fol. 63v — Illustration
• fol. 70r — Illustration
• fol. 75r — Illustration
• fol. 79v — Illustration
• fol. 85v — Illustration
• fol. 90v — Illustration
• fol. 104v — Illustration
• fol. 112v — Illustration
• fol. 114v — Illustration
• fol. 127v — Illustration
• fol. 133r — Illustration
• fol. 139v — Illustration
• fol. 154r — Illustration
• fol. 162r — Illustration
• fol. 167r — Illustration
• fol. 182v — Illustration
• fol. 190v — Illustration
• fol. 198r — Illustration
• fol. 206v — Illustration
• fol. 210r — Illustration