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

Title

Khamsah.
[خمسه]

Authors

• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  ‏نظامى گنجوى،&#٬٢٠٠ئ؛
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Jārpādqānī, Ḥājjī Muḥammad, active 1627, scribe
  جارپادقاني، حاجي محمد،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 62
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572439
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243893084
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_062.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572439

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1036-1037 (1627-1628)

Place

India?

Summary

Complete copy of Niẓāmī's well-known collection with 13 illustrations, headpieces, and marginal decorations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Titles for each section from captions titles.
   
• 1. f. 1v-43r: Makhzan-i asrār -- 2. f. 43v-153r: Khusraw va Shīrīn -- 3. 153v-237r: Laylī va Majnūn -- 4. 237v-328v: Haft Paykar -- 5. 329v-450r: Iskandarʹnāmah -- 6. 450v-513r: Iqbālʹnamāh
   
• Catalog entry, lot 303, pasted onto flyleaf 2 verso at front of book; notes in ink with two illegible stamps (f. 1r). One of the notes gives the costs of producing the manuscript, "The actual cost of the Khamsa of Nizami in the handwriting of the calligrapher Khan Shirazi - 357 rupees. Copying 36,000 couplets at 5 rupees per 1000 -180 rupees; ruling the folios and applying gold leaf - 90 rupees; 14 paintings and 3 rupees each - 42 rupees; binding and illuminations - 20 rupees; paper and material for the manuscript - 25 rupees" (John Seyller, "The Inspection and Valuation of Manuscripts in the Imperial Mughal Library" in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 57, No. 3/4 (1997), pp. 243-349, p. 273).
   

Extent

Ii, 513, iii leaves : 300 x 175 (202 x 88) mm, bound to 300 x 183 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with horizontal bands and gold tooling along the spine; red painted doublure.

Layout

Chiefly 15 lines in 2 columns with two sets of 12 angled lines ; border- and column-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpieces in polychrome and gold before each new section with marginal fill and the text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r, 43v-44r, 153v-154r, 237v-238r, 329v-330r, 450v-451r); textblock border-ruled in double gold and blue; text divisions marked in gold with gold corner and angled line dividers in gold and blue

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--17th century

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• manuscripts (documents)
• miniatures (paintings)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Khamsah.
• fol. 1v — Makhzan-i asrār
• fol. 43v — Khusraw va Shīrīn
• fol. 153v — Laylī va Majnūn
• fol. 237v — Haft Paykar
• fol. 329v — Iskandarʹnāmah
• fol. 450v — Iqbālʹnamāh

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 1v — Cloudbands
• fol. 2r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Cloudbands
• fol. 6r — Example of text division marker
• fol. 6v — Example of corner decorations and angled line decoration
• fol. 11r — Illustration
• fol. 30r — Illustration
• fol. 43v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 43v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 43v — Cloudbands
• fol. 44r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 44r — Cloudbands
• fol. 100v — Illustration
• fol. 105v — Illustration
• fol. 136r — Illustration
• fol. 153v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 153v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 153v — Cloudbands
• fol. 154r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 154r — Cloudbands
• fol. 184v — Illustration
• fol. 187v — Illustration
• fol. 188v — Illustration
• fol. 225v — Illustration
• fol. 237v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 237v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 237v — Cloudbands
• fol. 238r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 238r — Cloudbands
• fol. 239v — Illustration
• fol. 253r — Illustration
• fol. 260v — Illustration
• fol. 273r — Illustration
• fol. 329v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 329v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 329v — Cloudbands
• fol. 330r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 330r — Cloudbands
• fol. 450v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 450v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 450v — Cloudbands
• fol. 451r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 451r — Cloudbands