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

Title

Ḥamlah-i Ḥaydarī.
حمله حيدرى

Authors

• Bāz̲il, Muhammad Rafīʻ ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī, -1712
  باذل، محمد رفيع بن محمد المشهدى،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner
• Parker, King Lawrence, 1929-2006, former owner
• Parker, King Lawrence, 1929-2006, donor

Call number

MS Or 454 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14434842
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1132294330
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_454.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14434842

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1831 or 1832-1839

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of the poems recounting the battles and expeditions of the prophet Muḥammad and ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from fourth flyleaf verso at front of book.
   

Extent

Iv, 383, iv leaves : 298 x 188 (220 x 128) mm, bound to 300 x 190 x 45 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered and floral painted covers in yellow and red; inside covers have large leaf design on a red background.

Layout

21 lines per page in 4 columns.

Decoration

Illuminated headpieces in blue and gold before each section (f. 1v, 335v) with numerous illuminated and gilded text division markers; gilded leaf patterned intercolumnal fill; textblock border-ruled in cream, gold, black, red and blue with page-opening frame-ruled in narrow gold and black.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Mr. King L. Parker (Sept. 2, 1969).
   
• Formerly owned by Aḥmad ʻAlī Khān, 1351 A.H. (1932 or 1933 CE) (stamp, f. 383v).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Ḥamlah-i Ḥaydarī.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 3r — Example of illuminated text divider
• fol. 335v — Illuminated headpiece