Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb-i Gulistān.
کتاب گلستان

Authors

• Saʻdī
  سعدى

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor
• Juvaynī, Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh ibn Muḥammad Malikshāh, scribe
  جويني، محمد بن ملكشاه بن محمد ملكشاه،
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 207
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968531703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961923254
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853170 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms207.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 916 (1510 or 1511)

Summary

Collection of Persian stories and poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Stamp (p. [226]).
   

Extent

112 leaves : 205 x 140 (150 x 90) mm bound to 205 x 150 mm +

Collation

Paper, 112; 1⁸ 2⁶ 3¹² 4¹⁰ 5¹² 6⁸ 7¹² 8⁶ 9-10⁸ 11⁶ 12¹⁰ 13⁶; no foliation. Catchwords each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather, cut smaller than the textblock and damaged along the bottom edge.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines with occasional marginal notes.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription on Dropsie College bookplate in housing).
   
• Formerly held by the Nalima Library (note laid in manuscript).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

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