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

Title

Subḥat al-abrār.
[سبحت الابرار]

Authors

• Jāmī, 1414-1492
  جامى،

Other related names

• Kempner, Margaret Loeb, 1899-2001, donor
• Kempner, Alan H, former owner
• Kempner, Alan H, honoree

Call number

MS Or 475
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14345910
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123202831
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_475.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14345910

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Summary

Illustrated copy of most of Subḥat al-abrār from Haft awrang on colored leaves, pink, yellow, cream. The selection begins with the fifth line of section 7 and continues through the end.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

100 foliated leaves : 204 x 117 (120 x 60) mm, bound to 208 x 120 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

15 lines in two columns.

Decoration

illuminated headpiece and finispiece in blue with gold, green, red and white (f. 1v, 100r); textblock border-ruled in gold and blue with columns and section headings ruled in gold; rubrications in gold and blue. Eight full-page illustrations (f. 9r, 27v, 39v, 44r, 51r, 61v, 81r, 91v).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Margaret L. Kempner in memory of Alan H. Kempner, 1986.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Persian literature--747-1500
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Early works to 1800
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Subḥat al-abrār].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 9r — Illustration
• fol. 27v — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 44r — Illustration
• fol. 51r — Illustration
• fol. 61v — Illustration
• fol. 81r — Illustration
• fol. 91v — Illustration
• fol. 100r — Illuminated finispiece
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "Alan Horace Kempner"