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

Title

Khamsah.
خمسه

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  ‏نظامى گنجوى،‏

Other related names

• Qāsim Kātib, active 1582, scribe
  قاسم كاتب،
• Monif, Hassan Khan, -1968, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum NEP33
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111578903
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/NEP33.html
• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977565347803681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

990-992 A.H. (1582-1584)

Place

Shīrāz

Summary

Illuminated and illustrated copy of Niẓāmī's collection of 5 poetic works; four dual-page illuminations, many illuminated headers and 24 full-page illustrations including two sets of scenes covering the full page-opening (f. 2v-3r, 370v-371r).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 370r).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 375 mm x 254 mm.
   
• In the digital facsimile, f. 15v is missing.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; no visible chain lines
   
• Stamp (f. 4v).
   

Extent

1 online resource (371 unfoliated leaves) :

Foliation

Manuscript is unfoliated; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Illustrations

Binding

Unbound.

Layout

Chiefly written in 20 lines in four columns, some lines at angles.

Decoration

Full, dual-page illuminated title pages in blue and gold with red, green, yellow; a central star motif set into a square with a rectangle above and below, all spaces filled with patterns and flowers and vines; titles of works are in gold in the rectangles and star, somewhat smudged (f. 1v-2r). Full, dual-page illustration with illuminated frame showing a hunt scene (f. 2v-3r). Second set of full, dual-page illuminated opening pages chiefly in blue and gold with polychrome flower and vine decoration; a central blue medallion set with white text with two blue pendants on the vertical axis (f. 3v-4r). Second full, dual-page illustrated scene with illuminated margins showing a feast (f. 370v-371r). Headpieces before each new work, each one is unique within the manuscript; the page-opening has gold, foliate marginal fill; text on cloudbands, blue intercolumnar fill with small gold flowers (f. 4v-5r, 35r-35v, 118r-118v, 182v-183r, 238r-238v, 326v-327r). Each page is border-ruled in brown, green, orange, gold, red and blue with intercolumnal fill in two styles, either blue with gold flowers ruled in red (center column) or gold with black flowers ruled in green (side columns); text division markers are in white ink on a gold field decorated with small, polychrome flowers and ruled in red and blue with white dots. When the text is written at angles, corners are filled in three ways: gold with polychrome flowers, blue with gold flowers, or pink with blue flowers. Colophons are surrounded by gold foliate marginal fill. 27 full-page illustrations (f. 16v, 28r, 49r, 64v, 81r, 96v, 126v, 140r, 147r, 150v, 154r, 158v, 164v, 169v, 192v, 240v, 256v, 270r, 284r, 303r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Purchased from H. Khan Monif in 1926.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
• Persian literature
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Fascimiles
• Specimens
• Full covers
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 4v — Khamsah
• fol. 4v — Makhzan al-asrār
• fol. 35r — Colophon
• fol. 35v — Khusraw va Shīrīn
• fol. 118r — Colophon
• fol. 118v — Haft Paykar
• fol. 183r — Colophon
• fol. 183v — Laylī va Majnūn
• fol. 240r — Colophon
• fol. 240v — Sharafʹnāmah
• fol. 328r — Colophon
• fol. 328v — Iqbalʹnāmah
• fol. 372r — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2v — Dual-page illustrated hunt scene
• fol. 2v — Illuminated frame
• fol. 3r — Dual-page illustrated hunt scene
• fol. 3r — Illuminated frame
• fol. 3v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 4r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 4v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 4v — Cloudbands
• fol. 4v — Stamp
• fol. 5r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 5r — Cloudbands
• fol. 5r — Example of illuminated text divider
• fol. 6r — Example of simple illuminated text division
• fol. 16v — Example of text set at angles
• fol. 17r — Illustration
• fol. 28v — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Illuminated foliate fill
• fol. 35v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 35v — Illuminated foliate marginal fill
• fol. 35v — Cloudbands
• fol. 36r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 36r — Cloudbands
• fol. 49v — Illustration
• fol. 65r — Illustration
• fol. 81v — Illustration
• fol. 97r — Illustration
• fol. 118r — Illuminated foliate fill
• fol. 118v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 118v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 118v — Cloudbands
• fol. 119r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 119r — Cloudbands
• fol. 127r — Illustration
• fol. 140v — Illustration
• fol. 147v — Illustration
• fol. 151r — Illustration
• fol. 154v — Illustration
• fol. 159r — Illustration
• fol. 165r — Illustration
• fol. 170r — Illustration
• fol. 183r — Illuminated foliate fill
• fol. 183v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 183v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 183v — Cloudbands
• fol. 184r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 184r — Cloudbands
• fol. 193r — Illustration
• fol. 210r — Illustration
• fol. 225v — Illustration
• fol. 240r — Illuminated foliate fill
• fol. 240v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 240v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 240v — Cloudbands
• fol. 241r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 241r — Cloudbands
• fol. 243r — Illustration
• fol. 258v — Illustration
• fol. 272r — Illustration
• fol. 286r — Illustration
• fol. 305r — Illustration
• fol. 315r — Illustration
• fol. 328r — Illuminated foliate fill
• fol. 328v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 328v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 328v — Cloudbands
• fol. 329r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 329r — Cloudbands
• fol. 370v — Angled lines with illuminated fill
• fol. 371r — Angled lines with illuminated fill
• fol. 371v — Angled lines with illuminated fill
• fol. 372r — Angled lines with illuminated fill
• fol. 372r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 372v — Dual-page illustrated feast scene
• fol. 372v — Illuminated frame
• fol. 373r — Dual-page illustrated feast scene
• fol. 373r — Illuminated frame