Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Haft paykar.
[هفت پيکر]

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  ‏نظامى گنجوى،‏

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 422
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954448733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779626678

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599

Place

Iran

Summary

Lacunose 16th-century copy of a 12th-century romance about the life of Bahrām Gūr, a 5th-century king of Iran; its title (in English, Seven beauties or Seven images) refers to the seven princesses that Bahrām marries, each of whom tells the king a story as part of the narrative.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Fragile; worm damage, particularly in gutters; oxidation causing long, straight cuts at the ruled margins of several leaves.
   

Extent

68 leaves : 248 x 158 (166 x 88) mm bound to 248 x 166 mm

Foliation

Paper, viii + 68 + viii; [1-68].

Support

Paper

Binding

Red Morocco with blue painted frame and tooled design of circles along the frame, detached. Doublure same as board covers.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 17 lines, with additional text written diagonally in margins ruled on the top, outer, and bottom edges of the columns on each page.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); ; columns and diagonal sections in margins outlined in gold; outer margin of text block framed in gold, green, and blue; headings in red ink.

Script

Written in neat nastaʻlīq script; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 10465 (stamp, first flyleaf; paper label on spine).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's by the Trustees of the Robinson Trust as part of a collection of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 25 November 1968, lot 233, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Storytelling

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Romances (document genre)
• Fiction
• History

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