Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā.
[يوسف و زليخا]

Authors

• Jāmī, 1414-1492
  جامى،

Other related names

• Andalaft, Dimitri, bookseller

Call number

Penn Museum NEP31
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571413203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114308242
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/NEP31.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Illustrated story of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 155 x 95 (100 x 50) mm bound to 160 x 100 mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; no visible chain lines
   

Extent

1 online resource (164 paginated leaves) :

Foliation

Modern pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Illustrations

Binding

Bound in lacquered black boards (Type III) with birds and flowers painted in gold and gold frames; dark red leather spine; inside covers are painted dark red with a lighter red frame.

Layout

Chiefly 12 lines in two columns.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and green with text on cloudbands; black and white flowers on light blue ground for intercolumnar fill (p. 2). Textblock is border-ruled in gold, and blue; columns are ruled in narrow gold; rubrications in red. Five full-page, color illustrations (p. 19, 138, 210, 229, 288).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft in 1921.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 19th century

Licenses

• Text

  Images are ©2019 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License version 4.0 (CC-BY-2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

• Text

  Metadata is ©2019 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• 2 — [Yūsuf va Zulaykhā].

Decorations

• 2 — Illuminated headpiece
• 2 — Cloudbands
• 19 — Illustration
• 138 — Illustration
• 210 — Illustration
• 229 — Illustration
• 288 — Illustration