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

Title

Dīvān-i Khusraw va ʻIṣmat.
[دىوان خسرو و عصمت]

Authors

• Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
  امير خسرو دهلوى،
• ʻIṣmat Bukhārāʼī, -1436 or 1437
  عصمت بخارائى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 73
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515765
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124678702
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_073.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515765

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1550? and 1646

Place

Iran?

Summary

Selections from two poets including qaṣāʼid, ghazalīyāt, rubāʼiyāt and muqaṭṭiʻāt; two leaves are replacement leaves and are quite brittle and damaged (f. 45-46); some leaves missing from the end; dampstaining throughout.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two owner's stamps and notes, almost entirely effaced (f. 1r). Simsar reads the upper stamp as Ismāʼīl ibn Sayyid ʻAlī 1056 A.H (1646 CE) (p. 123).
   
• Catalog entry, number 353, pasted in (first front flyleaf verso).
   

Extent

Ii, 193, vi leaves : 235 x 135 (166 x 90) mm bound to 240 x 142 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, many have been trimmed.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in leather with plain paper sides over pasteboard, with flap (Type II); spine and fore-edge flap hinge are red leather

Layout

Chiefly 13 lines in two columns; sometimes the short lines are centered; extensive marginalia.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in blue and gold; small flowers in gold with blue dots and red centers appear on the ends of short lines; stenciled designed in red and black (f. 5v-6r, 55v-56r); gold rulings between the columns and sections of poetry.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, first front flyleaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Dīvān-i Khusraw va ʻIṣmat].
• fol. 1v — [Poems of Khusraw]
• fol. 73r — [Poems of ʻIṣmat]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4v — Stencil
• fol. 5r — Stencil
• fol. 56v — Stencil
• fol. 57r — Stencil