Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Genealogical tables.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Bassett, James, 1834-1906, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 37
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441492
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644153
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441492

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1797 and 1834?

Place

Iran

Summary

Genealogical tables of the Prophets, followed by Eastern and Persian dynasties up to Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shah of the Qajar dynasty. The author says this work is based on an abridged Turkish translation he saw of a Persian text by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf called Tavārīkh va siyar-i anbiyā va akhbār-i sulūk-i mulūk. Since the Persian had been lost, but the Turkish text was recognized as being a translation from Persian, it was decided to translate it back into Persian (f. 1v). The copy then seems to have been expanded to include up to the second Qajar ruler.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry from sale pasted onto f. 43v.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 335 x 205 (315 x 200) mm bound to 335 x 205 mm

Foliation

Foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in plain dark brown paper over pasteboard with marbled paper doublure.

Layout

Numerous sets of two concentric circles with a name written inside the interior circle and color filled in between the two circles connected by lines to other circle-sets. Text appears at angles among the circles. The first two pages are introductory material written diagonally, f. 1v is fully written and f. 2r is written in a 150 x 130 mm box.

Decoration

Each page-opening is frame-ruled in green. Rubrications in red. Circles are chiefly either blue or green, but also include orange and closer to the end of the work, red, silver, pink, and yellow. A few circles contain more than one color (f. 36rv-38r, for example). The colored portion of the circle is also sometimes decorated with gold zigzag patterns. Red lines connect the circles and extend over the page frame-rule. The last opening (f. 42v-43r) includes Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shah's name set into an elaborate gold and red circle with a crown on top, surrounded by the names of his sons, in silver, and grandsons in pink, and yellow circles.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by James Bassett; inscription "from Rev Dr. Bassett, late missionary, 1886" (note in pencil, f. 43v).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Prophets--Genealogy

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Genealogical tables
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Genealogical tables]
• fol. 1v — Compiler's introduction

Decorations

• fol. 2v — Diagram [each diagram extends across the full page-opening]
• fol. 3r — Diagram
• fol. 3v — Diagram
• fol. 4r — Diagram
• fol. 4v — Diagram
• fol. 5r — Diagram
• fol. 5v — Diagram
• fol. 6r — Diagram
• fol. 6v — Diagram
• fol. 7r — Diagram
• fol. 7v — Diagram
• fol. 8r — Diagram
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 9r — Diagram
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 12r — Diagram
• fol. 12v — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 14v — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 15v — Diagram
• fol. 16r — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 17r — Diagram
• fol. 17v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Diagram
• fol. 18v — Diagram
• fol. 19r — Diagram
• fol. 19v — Diagram
• fol. 20r — Diagram
• fol. 20v — Diagram
• fol. 21r — Diagram
• fol. 21v — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 23r — Diagram
• fol. 23v — Diagram
• fol. 24r — Diagram
• fol. 24v — Diagram
• fol. 25r — Diagram
• fol. 25v — Diagram
• fol. 26r — Diagram
• fol. 26v — Diagram
• fol. 27r — Diagram
• fol. 27v — Diagram
• fol. 28r — Diagram
• fol. 28v — Diagram
• fol. 29r — Diagram
• fol. 29v — Diagram
• fol. 30r — Diagram
• fol. 30v — Diagram
• fol. 31r — Diagram
• fol. 31v — Diagram
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 32v — Diagram
• fol. 33r — Diagram
• fol. 33v — Diagram
• fol. 34r — Diagram
• fol. 34v — Diagram
• fol. 35r — Diagram
• fol. 35v — Diagram
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 36v — Diagram
• fol. 37r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 38r — Diagram
• fol. 38v — Diagram
• fol. 39r — Diagram
• fol. 39v — Diagram
• fol. 40r — Diagram
• fol. 40v — Diagram
• fol. 41r — Diagram
• fol. 41v — Diagram
• fol. 42r — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 43r — Diagram
• fol. 43v — Note in English
• fol. 43v — Catalog clipping