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

Title

Majmūʻah.
[مجموعه]

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 66
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554139
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055792580
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_066.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554139

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1775

Place

Iṣfahān?

Summary

Anthology of classical and contemporary Persian poetry containing the work of at least three dozen poets. The frequency of the nisba Isfahānī suggests production in that city. Arranged alphabetically by rhyme syllable, the text is in two parts: the first (f. 1r-66r), missing its initial folios, begins with poems ending in the letter "bāʼ"; the second (f. 67v-161v), complete from "alif" to "yāʼ", consists of ghazals.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Support: Non-European laid paper.
   
• Accompanying material: Contains a tipped-in note between following f. 30v-31r, dated 1318/1900-01, with the seal of a certain ʻAlī-Rizā Khān.
   

Extent

161 leaves : 299 x 194 (280 x 175) mm, bound to 295 x 203 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter cover of plain cloth, sides of printed decorated paper in marbled design.

Layout

15 lines in two columns with 32 marginal lines across three sides.

Script

Written in shikastah.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Three effaced ownership seals (f. 161v): customs stamp dated 1312/1894-95 (f. 1r, 161v) ; Mottahedeh Resht (dealer) ; David Eugene Smith (donor).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--Early works to 1800
• Ghazals, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Poems
• Quarter covers
• Printed marbling (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Licenses

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