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

• Māzandarānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥusaynī, active 1828, scribe
  مازندرانى، عبد الوهاب الحسينى،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 59
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2522974
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131819613
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_059.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2522974

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1244 (1828 or 1829)

Place

India?

Summary

Illustrated copy of the Shāhnāmah without a preface.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 4r).
   
• "The Shah Embrah, or, The Chronicles of the Kings of Delhi. This copy was taken from the private apartment of the late Emperor, in the Palace of Delhi" (note pasted to first flyleaf recto at back of book).
   
• Catalog entry, lot 975, pasted to second flyleaf verso at back of book.
   

Extent

Ii, 629, ii leaves : 292 x 185 (223 x 113) mm bound to 297 x 190 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over thick pasteboard with stamped gold onlays of a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; marbled paper doublure; spine is stamped: The Shah Embrah, or, The Chronicles of the Kings of Delhi Persian Ms.

Layout

Written in 24 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpieces in gold and blue with pink and orange floral borders (f. 1v, 178v, 334v, 507v); 69 illlustrations in bright colors; textblock border-ruled in blue, gold, blue, gold with intercolumnar fill in blue and red with gold designs; page-opening frame-ruled in gold; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Epic poetry, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Epic poems
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Full covers
• Onlays (decorative components)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Shāhnāmah.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4v — Illustration
• fol. 5v — Illustration
• fol. 7r — Illustration
• fol. 11v — Illustration
• fol. 18v — Illustration
• fol. 27v — Illustration
• fol. 32r — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 42v — Illustration
• fol. 53v — Illustration
• fol. 65v — Illustration
• fol. 73r — Illustration
• fol. 88r — Illustration
• fol. 96v — Illustration
• fol. 106v — Illustration
• fol. 116r — Illustration
• fol. 132v — Illustration
• fol. 142r — Illustration
• fol. 153v — Illustration
• fol. 159v — Illustration
• fol. 178v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 183r — Illustration
• fol. 190r — Illustration
• fol. 208r — Illustration
• fol. 210v — Illustration
• fol. 211v — Illustration
• fol. 226r — Illustration
• fol. 230r — Illustration
• fol. 242r — Illustration
• fol. 268v — Illustration
• fol. 292v — Illustration
• fol. 305r — Illustration
• fol. 323r — Illustration
• fol. 334v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 339r — Illustration
• fol. 341r — Illustration
• fol. 352r — Illustration
• fol. 358r — Illustration
• fol. 365v — Illustration
• fol. 366v — Illustration
• fol. 369r — Illustration
• fol. 371v — Illustration
• fol. 378v — Illustration
• fol. 386v — Illustration
• fol. 390r — Illustration
• fol. 396r — Illustration
• fol. 399v — Illustration
• fol. 403v — Illustration
• fol. 409r — Illustration
• fol. 411v — Illustration
• fol. 417r — Illustration
• fol. 420r — Illustration
• fol. 423r — Illustration
• fol. 431v — Illustration
• fol. 434v — Illustration
• fol. 437v — Illustration
• fol. 441v — Illustration
• fol. 443v — Illustration
• fol. 460r — Illustration
• fol. 469r — Illustration
• fol. 474v — Illustration
• fol. 486v — Illustration
• fol. 496v — Illustration
• fol. 507v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 530r — Illustration
• fol. 556v — Illustration
• fol. 587r — Illustration
• fol. 592v — Illustration
• fol. 616r — Illustration
• fol. 622v — Illustration
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "John Frederick Lewis"