Collection ID: 0006 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Dīvān.
[ديوان]

Authors

• ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad, 1555 or 1556-1590 or 1591
  عرفى شيرازى، محمد،
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Muḥammad Salīm, former owner
  محمد سليم،
• Ḥasan Naqāsh Iṣfahānī Muḥammad ʻAlī, former owner
  حسن نقاش اصفهانى محمد على،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 66
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker & Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189392802049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112672778
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_066.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1592 or 1593

Place

India or Iran?

Summary

Collection of poetry by ʻUrfī Shīrāzī, begins abruptly; includes sections called Qaṣāʼid afṣaḥ al-mutaqaddimīn wa-al-mutaʼakhirīn, Muqaṭṭaʻāt, Rubāʻīyāt, Javāb-i Makhzan, Sāqīʹnāmah and Qaṣīdat Mawlanā ʻAmīdī, another section of praise poetry labeled by individual is also included; some of the titles were added by a later hand. A number of headpiece decorations and detailed marginal doodles were also added by a later hand.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

220 leaves : 185 x 90 (150 x 60) mm, bound to 185 x 90

Foliation

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

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Reddish leather over thin pasteboard with blind-tooled frame; severe water damage.

Layout

19 lines, in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; textblock ruled in red, including between columns; headpiece monochrome foliate fill likely added later along with several marginal doodles.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Salīm (note f. 129v).
   
• Formerly owned by Ḥasan Naqāsh Iṣfahānī Muḥammad ʻAlī (note f. 140v).
   
• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--1500-1796
• Persian literature--1500-1796

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Doodles
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Notes (documents)
• Poems

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Dīvān].
• fol. 65v — Qaṣāʼid afṣaḥ al-mutaqaddimīn wa-al-mutaʼakhirīn
• fol. 107v — Muqaṭṭaʻāt
• fol. 116v — Rubāʻīyāt
• fol. 130v — Javāb-i Makhzan
• fol. 180v — [Praise poetry]
• fol. 203v — Sāqīʹnāmah
• fol. 207r — Qaṣīdat Mawlanā ʻAmīdī

Decorations

• fol. 45v — Added vine and flower decoration
• fol. 65v — Added headpiece decoration
• fol. 70v — Added marginal drawing
• fol. 71v — Added marginal drawings
• fol. 79v — Added marginal drawings
• fol. 84v — Added marginal drawing
• fol. 103v — Added marginal drawing
• fol. 130r — Notations
• fol. 135r — Added marginal drawings
• fol. 145v — Added marginal drawing
• fol. 146r — Added marginal drawings
• fol. 146r — Added decoration
• fol. 178r — Added marginal drawing
• fol. 180r — Notations
• fol. 180v — Added headpiece decoration