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

Title

Laylī va Majnūn.
ليلى و مجنون

Authors

• Rūḥ al-Amīn, Muḥammad Amīn, 1563 or 1564-1637
  روح الامين، محمد امين،
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 67
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189395840049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114306787
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_067.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Iran?

Summary

A damanged and lacunose copy of Laylī va Majnūn; the pages are mostly detached with leaves missing and out of order; the first leaf is adhered to the upper board. The whole work is held in a damaged leather wrapper.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from chapter header (f. 16v).
   
• A brief description of the manuscript by M. S. Khan of Calcutta, India dated 21 July 1954, laid in.
   

Extent

149 leaves : 226 x 120 (127 x 60) mm, bound to 226 x 120 mm

Foliation

Foliation in pencil, upper left recto (1-88, 84[a]-[147]); catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Pasteboard boards laid onto the top and bottom; wrapped in a damaged piece of unevenly cut brown leather.

Layout

12 lines in two columns.

Decoration

Remains of a headpiece in gold, red and blue with gold foliate marginal fill (f. 1v [adhered to upper board]); textblock and columns ruled in gold with second, faded blue rule around textblock; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Front board inside — Laylī va Majnūn.

Decorations

• Front board inside — Illuminated headpiece
• Loose leaf 1 recto — Description by M.S. Khan of Calcutta
• Loose leaf 1 verso — Signature and date