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

Title

Khamsah.
[خمسه]

Authors

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

Other related names

• Wylie, Theodore W. J. 1818-1897, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1952
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459940003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523300

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1825?

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of the collection of five poems known as Panj ganj or the Khamsah by Niẓāmī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

289 leaves : 331 x 175 (255 x 128) mm bound to 332 x 187 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in cracked brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); thin, red leather doublure.

Layout

22 lines in four columns, border-ruled with page-opening rule.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Textblock border-ruled in green, beige, black, and red with double black rules between the columns of text; page-opening framed by a black rule; polychrome illuminated headpieces in red, pink, blue, beige and green (f. 1v, 27v, 88v, 167v, 237v).

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Theodore W. J. Wylie (bookplate inside back cover). Inscription: "Presented to The Rev. T. W. J. Wylie Professor of Theology in Philadelphia by J. R. Campbell Saharanpur, India, Oct. 20th 1856" (Flyleaf 1r, front of book) with further inscription: "Sháh Námah or The History of the Persian Kings by Molavi Nizámí all handsomely written by hand" (Flyleaf 2r, front of book).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poems
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Khamsah
• fol. 1v — Makhzān al-asrār
• fol. 27v — Haft paykar
• fol. 88v — Iskandarʹnāmah
• fol. 167v — Khusraw va Shīrīn
• fol. 237v — Laylī va Majnūn

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 27v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 88v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 167v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 237v — Illuminated headpiece