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

Title

Rubāʻīyāt-i ʻUmar Khayyam.
رباعيات عمر خيام

Authors

• Omar Khayyam
  عمر خيام

Other related names

• Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, active 1688, scribe
  محمد عبد السبحان،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 344
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13848487
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097683023
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_344.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13848487

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1688

Place

Iṣfahān

Summary

Collection of quatrains.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. [1]).
   
• Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book).
   

Extent

48 paginated leaves : 145 x 88 (108 x 58) mm, bound to 155 x 90 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind stamped central toronja and blind tooled frame; gold speckled (now green) paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Layout

20 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Quatrains, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

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

Licenses

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