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

Title

Shāhnāmah.
[شاهنامه]

Authors

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

Other related names

• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 56
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450055
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091899965
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450055

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Place

India?

Summary

Third volume of the Shāhnāmah with 13 miniatures.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

145 leaves : 380 x 240 (265 x 142) mm bound to 390 x 247 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered bindings with illustrations of the celestial bodies in the form of humans in various poses, sometimes riding on or walking with animals on a greenish yellow field with three frames, black, red, and black all with gilt floral fill. The beings depicted on the outside covers are not the same on front and back. Inside covers have a painting of a plant resembling a narcissus on a red field with gold tooled frame. Cover is dated 1232 A.H. (1816) and is probably a later rebinding.

Layout

After the first opening, pages generally laid out in 25 lines per page in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled and pages frame-ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, pink, green and purple on first opening (f. 1v). 13 miniatures in bright colors (f. 11v, 19v, 33r, 41v, 47r, 58v, 69r, 79v, 91r, 104r, 110v, 122r, 134r). Textblock border-ruled in gold, red, and blue. Page-opening framed by a thin, blue rule.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate on first flyleaf recto, at front of book).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Epic poetry, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Epic poems
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Shāhnāmah].

Decorations

• Insert verso — Catalog entry
• Insert recto — Catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 11v — Illustration
• fol. 19v — Illustration
• fol. 33r — Illustration
• fol. 41v — Illustration
• fol. 47r — Illustration
• fol. 58v — Illustration
• fol. 69r — Illustration
• fol. 79v — Illustration
• fol. 91r — Illustration
• fol. 104r — Illustration
• fol. 110r — Illustration
• fol. 122r — Illustration
• fol. 134r — Illustration
• Insert verso — Catalog entry
• Insert recto — Catalog entry