Ms. Coll. 525 Kitāb-i taṣāvīr-i shīshah garān va ghayrah va bayān-i ālāt ānhā. / کتاب تصاوير شيشه گران و غيره و بيان آلات آنها
Title
Kitāb-i taṣāvīr-i shīshah garān va ghayrah va bayān-i ālāt ānhā.کتاب تصاوير شيشه گران و غيره و بيان آلات آنها
Authors
- Ghulām Yaḥyá ibn ʻImād al-Dīn Lapkanī, active 1820
غلام يحيى بن عماد الدين لپکنى،
Other related names
- Glyn, Robert, active 1818-1825, patron
Call number
Ms. Coll. 525(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9927049663503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644080
- http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/ms_coll_525.html
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
PersianOrigin
Written on commission for Robert Glyn (f. 2r) in approximately 1820.
- Date
- approximately 1820
- Place
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India
Summary
Description of eleven trades and crafts practiced in Bareilly, India; illustrated with 12 pen and ink drawings of tools and with five colored illustrations of craftspeople. Commissioned by Robert Glyn who was magistrate and judge of the district of Bareilly from 1818-1823. Craftsmen and tradesmen include glass maker, crimper, gram parcher, weaver, pansāri (vendor, this includes a price list for merchandise), wire maker, gold and silver thread and lace maker, kabāb maker (with recipes for making kabābs), and goldsmith.
Notes
- Title from front cover.
Extent
Iii, 42, iii leaves :Foliation
Some contemporary foliation in ink, upper left recto. Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto excluding blank leaves inserted before paintings and drawings (1-36); references in the record are to the modern foliation.Support
PaperBinding
Bound in half covers with marbled paper sides and red leather corners and spine.Layout
Decoration
Twelve drawings in black and red (f. 3r, 5r, 7r, 10r, 12r, 14r, 20r, 23r, 25r, 30r, 35r-35v); five color illustrations (f. 9r, 19r, 22r, 29r, 34r); textblock border ruled in red and black; rubrications in red.
Script
Provenance
- Purchased from Sam Fogg, 1998.
- Sam Fogg
Subjects topical
- Artisans--India--Bareilly (District)
- Tools--India--Bareilly (District)
Genres
- Manuscripts, Persian
- Manuscripts, 19th century
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Drawings
- Miniatures (paintings)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Recipes
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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Table of contents
- fol. 1v — Kitāb-i taṣāvīr-i shīshah garān va ghayrah va bayān-i ālāt ānhā.
Decorations
- fol. 3r — Illustration
- fol. 5r — Illustration
- fol. 7r — Illustration
- fol. 9r — Color illustration
- fol. 10r — Illustration
- fol. 12r — Illustration
- fol. 14r — Illustration
- fol. 15v — Table
- fol. 16r — Table
- fol. 16v — Table
- fol. 17r — Table
- fol. 17v — Table
- fol. 18r — Table
- fol. 18v — Table
- fol. 19r — Color illustration
- fol. 20r — Illustration
- fol. 22r — Color illustration
- fol. 23r — Illustration
- fol. 25r — Illustration
- fol. 29r — Color illustration
- fol. 30r — Illustration
- fol. 34r — Color illustration
- fol. 35r — Illustration
- fol. 35v — Illustration
- Bottom edge — Note in English in pencil
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