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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/mscoll525.html https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3222rc60 https://repository.upenn.edu/kislakcollectionmaterials/4/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

approximately 1820

Place

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

Paper

Binding

Bound in half covers with marbled paper sides and red leather corners and spine.

Layout

Chiefly 13 long lines; border-ruled.

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

Written in nastaʻlīq with elements of shikastah in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Artisans--India--Bareilly (District)
• Tools--India--Bareilly (District)
• Oudh (India)--Social conditions

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Drawings
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Recipes

Keywords

• 19th century
• Persian
• Indian
• India
• Illustration
• Paper

Licenses

• 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