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

Title

Khamsah.
خمسه

Authors

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

Other related names

• ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Aḥmad Khān Bahādur , active 1856, former owner
  علاو الدين احمد خان بهادر،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 63
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460535
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210254
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_063.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460535

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Place

India?

Summary

Complete copy of Niẓāmī's well-known collection on orange-tinted paper with 44 illustrations and headpieces.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 383v).
   
• Catalog entry, lot 351, pasted onto front inside cover.
   
• Owner's stamp with the name ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Aḥmad Khān Bahādur and the date 1273 (f. 2v, 383v)
   

Extent

Ii, 383, ii leaves : 340 x 185 (235 x 120) mm bound to 356 x 195 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern green leather binding with blind-stamped and gilded onlays set into both covers of a central mandorla, cornerpieces and two pendants on the vertical axis; pastedowns of reddish leather with silver frame; gilt edges.

Layout

Chiefly 21 lines in 4 columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpieces in gold, blue, orange (f. 1v, 33r, 91v, 154v, 242v, 289v); 44 colorful illustrations, some of which are quite similar one to another (see for example f. 157v and f. 291v); textblock border-ruled in beige, blue, red, black with beige and black rules between the columns; page-opening frame-ruled in blue; rubrications in red, some missing.

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--18th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Specimens
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Khamsah.
• fol. 2v — Makhzan-i asrār
• fol. 91v — Haft paykar
• fol. 155v — Sharafʹnāmah
• fol. 242v — Iqbālʹnāmah
• fol. 289v — Khusraw va Shīrīn

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Notations
• fol. 2r — Notations
• fol. 2v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2v — Stamp
• fol. 8r — Illustration
• fol. 17v — Illustration
• fol. 24v — Illustration
• fol. 29r — Illustration
• fol. 33r — Laylī va Majnūn
• fol. 33r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 45r — Illustration
• fol. 57r — Illustration
• fol. 65v — Illustration
• fol. 72v — Illustration
• fol. 82v — Illustration
• fol. 86v — Illustration
• fol. 91v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 95r — Illustration
• fol. 102r — Illustration
• fol. 109v — Illustration
• fol. 123r — Illustration
• fol. 126r — Illustration
• fol. 137r — Illustration
• fol. 142r — Illustration
• fol. 154r — Illustration
• fol. 155v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 157v — Illustration
• fol. 169v — Illustration
• fol. 173v — Illustration
• fol. 184v — Illustration
• fol. 191v — Illustration
• fol. 199r — Illustration
• fol. 207v — Illustration
• fol. 223v — Illustration
• fol. 226v — Illustration
• fol. 236r — Illustration
• fol. 242v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 251v — Illustration
• fol. 259r — Illustration
• fol. 269v — Illustration
• fol. 274v — Illustration
• fol. 289v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 291v — Illustration
• fol. 305v — Illustration
• fol. 312r — Illustration
• fol. 323v — Illustration
• fol. 336v — Illustration
• fol. 340v — Illustration
• fol. 349r — Illustration
• fol. 351r — Illustration
• fol. 358r — Illustration
• fol. 364v — Illustration
• fol. 377r — Illustration
• fol. 383v — Stamp