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

Title

Kitāb-i Tīmūrnāmah.
کتاب تىمورنامه

Authors

• Hātifī, -1520 or 1521
  هاتفى،

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 211
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968532163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961923515
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853216 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms211.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 989 (1581)

Summary

Persian account of the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, also known by the title Ẓafarnāmah. Marginal inscription above the illuminated headpiece is the opening of the basmalah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Numerous repairs to leaf edges and holes in margins.
   

Extent

134 leaves : 210 x 105 (145 x 55) mm bound to 215 x 115 mm

Collation

Paper, ii + 134 + i leaves; no foliation or visible sewing. Catch phrase on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather, gilt-tooled (Type III); earlier covers on repaired binding.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 14 lines.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription on Lewis bookplate inside left cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside left cover), possibly his number 385 (label inside left cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500

Genres

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

Licenses

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