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

Title

Tīmūrnāmah.
[تيمورنامه]

Authors

• Hātifī, -1520 or 1521
  هاتفى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥammad ibn Mullā Mīr al-Ḥusaynī, active 1583, scribe
  محمد بن ملا مير الحسينى،
• Qulī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Jaʻfar, active 1839, former owner
  قلى، محمد حسين بن جعفر،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 43
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2455301
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101189488
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2455301

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

991 AH (1583)

Place

Iran?

Summary

History of Tamerlane in verse, also called Ẓafarnāmah; five illustrations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two stamps, one oval, one square with two different names dated 1210? (f. 171r, 172r).
   

Extent

190 leaves : 235 x 153 (143 x 67) mm bound to 240 x 158 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later rebinding in red leather over pasteboard; covers blind-stamped with central square stamp with floral motifs and frame with matching cornerpieces. Spine and cover edges are black textile with gilt-stamped frame; inside covers are painted black.

Layout

12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and orange (f. 1v); five illustrations (f. 28r, 58r, 72v, 132v, 140v); textblock border-ruled in red, blue, gold, blue; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Jaʻfar al-Qulī, Governor of Maḥālāt and the districts of Marand, dated 24 Jumādah al-Thānī 1255 (note and stamps, f. 190v).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Persian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• Poetry
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Tīmūrnāmah].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in pencil.
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 58r — Illustration
• fol. 72v — Illustration
• fol. 132v — Illustration
• fol. 140v — Illustration
• fol. 171r — Stamp
• fol. 172r — Stamp
• fol. 190v — Notations
• fol. 190v — Stamps