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Title

Vaqfnāmah-ʼi Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī.
[وقفنامۀ شاه سلطان حسين صفوى]

Authors

• Ḥusayn I, Shah of Iran, 1668-1726
  حسين
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Fatḥ ʻAlī, active 1710, witness
  فتح على،
• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Ḥasan, active 1694, witness
  حسينى، محمد باقر بن حسن،
• Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shāh, active 1708, witness
  محمد بن محمد حسين شاه،
• Ḥusaynī, Murtaḍá, active 1707, witness
  حسينى، مرتضى،
• Khātūnʹābādī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusaynī, active 1706, scribe
  خاتون‌آبادى، محمد باقر بن اسماعيل الحسينى،
• Jaʻfar ʻAlī, active 1803, former owner
  جعفر على،
• Young, Samuel, Sir, 1766-1826, associated name
• Nadhīr al-Dīn Ḥasan, associated name
  نذير الدين حسن،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• American Art Association, auctioneer
• Anderson Galleries, Inc, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 42
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2455300
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101189516
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2455300

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1706

Place

Iran

Summary

Endowment (waqf) document by Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī (r. 1694-1721) for the establishment of a funeral parlor for washing and preparing bodies for burial for the poor of Iṣfahān. The first page of the work is missing; it begins now with what would likely have been the second of a dual-page illuminated first opening. When the work was rebound, each leaf was tipped to a stub with a blank leaf inserted between them. The waqf was transcribed in 1118 A.H. (1706) (f. 18v), though the Sultan's stamp is dated 1125 A.H. (1713) (f. 20r ). Four witness stamps are found in the lower left of each recto, with the exception of the leaf with the Sultan's stamp. Three items describing the manuscript and interpreting the endowment as the manuscript itself, rather than the building it seeks to establish, tipped in at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Four seals from the four witnesses at the lower left of each recto, except f. 20r.
   
• Three items, one in Persian and two in English, explaining what the book is, with some errors of interpretation, tipped in. The first item (f. 27-28), in Persian, is signed Nadhīr al-Dīn Ḥasan and states that he was asked to identify the manuscript by Mr. George Sanders after the manuscript was brought to India by a certain Jaʻfar ʻAlī who presented it to Markham Ṣāḥib Bahādur (a title) after which Mr. Markham presented the manuscript to General Tottsville on 30 August, 1806. The second item (f. 31-32) is a description in English of the manuscript, still with the understanding that the book itself is the endowment, likely sent along with the manuscript. The third item (f. 33-34), a letter dated 4 February 1803, addressed to Mr. Samuel Young, Esq. and signed Jaʻfar ʻAlī, says that he has described this book previously to Mr. Young and is now sending it to him.
   
• Two catalog entries inserted.
   

Extent

37 leaves : 229 x 160 (160 x 95) mm bound to 234 x 175 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, inclusive of all tipped in sheets, added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords on verso of every written page, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather with gilt-stamped frame and interior edges; doublure of marbled paper; brass clasp; gilded edges.

Layout

5 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in gold. Textblock border-ruled in gold, blue, purple, green, and gold with thin gold rules between each line of text.

Script

Written in thuluth in black and gold ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Sold at the James Park sale (Part II) Anderson Auction Company (New York), 15 March 1910, lot 551 (catalog entry pasted onto inside back cover).
   
• Sold at the Baker-Kennedy-Doyle and Other Collections sale (Third Session) American Art Association (New York), 31 January 1923, lot 436 for $96 (catalog entry tipped in between f. 35 and 36; another copy pasted onto first flyleaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Waqf--Iran--Early works to 1800
• Endowments--Iran--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Endowments
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Waqf

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [Vaqfnāmah-ʼi Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī].
• fol. 27r — Document 1
• fol. 31v — Document 2 (end)
• fol. 33v — Document 3 (end)
• fol. 35v — Catalog entry, lot 436 (end)

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Stamps
• fol. 4r — Stamps
• fol. 6r — Stamps
• fol. 8r — Stamps
• fol. 10r — Stamps
• fol. 12r — Stamps
• fol. 14r — Stamps
• fol. 16r — Stamps
• fol. 18r — Stamps
• fol. 20r — Stamp
• fol. 22r — Stamps
• fol. 24r — Stamps
• fol. 26r — Stamps
• fol. 37v — Notation
• Inside back cover — Catalog entry, lot 551