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

Title

Pand-i ʻAṭṭār.
پند عطار

Authors

• ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230
  عطار، فرىد الدين،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Rushdī, Aḥmad, scribe
  رشدى، احمد.
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 61
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441508
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644281
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441508

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1820

Summary

Clear copy of a poem on moral precepts and advice. Gold rulings throughout with illuminated headpiece and finispiece.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   
• Catalog entry describing the manuscript pasted onto the inside front cover.
   

Extent

41 leaves : 235 x 135 (160 x 85) mm bound to 235 x 150 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers painted with frames of gold, red, and orange with a gold tooled diaper grid central fill, somewhat effaced. Coordinated design on flap. Silver sprinkled pink paper doublure.

Layout

11 lines in two columns. Gold rules between and around columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Dual page illuminated floriate borders of gold and red with illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, blue and red (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated finispiece in silver, gold, red, pink with floral motifs (f. 40v). Gold circular medallion, as if for a colophon or dedication (f. 41r). All pages border ruled in gold and green double rules with gold double rules between the columns and around each title. Page-openings ruled in gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Sufism--Early works to 1800
• Sufi literature, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Poems

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Pand-i ʻAṭṭār.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 40v — Illuminated finispiece
• fol. 41r — Gold circle in center of frame