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

Title

Nigāristān.
نگارستان

Authors

• Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century
  معين جوينى،
• Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631?
  داماد، محمد باقر بن محمد،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn, active 1572, scribe
  محمد حسين بن شرف الدين،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 77
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508415
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111686659
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_077.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508415

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian with some short quotations in Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 979 (1572)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of a collection of moral anecdotes in prose and verse.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 12r).
   
• Title also appears on top edge.
   
• Multiple notes on the flyleaves including: 1) Selections of poetry by Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Dāmād (front flyleaf recto); 2) A birth record composed by Shuʻayb al-Jawshaqānī of a girl named ʻIṣmat, born in 1005 A.H. (f. 337v); 3) A business transaction about the exchange of pearls (14 mithqāl and 4 nukhūd) for 44 gold coins between Ḥājjī Bājī and Nawwāb Fakhr al-Dawlah (f. 337v, upper left).
   
• Two illegible stamps (f. 337r).
   
• Two catalog entries pasted onto inside back cover. One in French, lot 203; the second in English, lot 377.
   

Extent

337, i leaves : 235 x 151 (153 x 80) mm bound to 235 x 152 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in lighter brown leather over pasteboard with inlay central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; the pendants are gold filigree on a green background and the central mandorla and cornerpieces are gilded with blue onlays; pastedowns are blue paper; endbands in light pink and green.

Layout

15 lines to a page with prose in long lines and poetry in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in blue and gold with floral decoration (f. 1v); first opening text on cloudbands with gold and floral in-fill with intercolumnal decoration of polychrome flowers on a dark blue ground; textblock border ruled in gold, orange, gold, black and blue; rubrications in red; gold rules around and between columns of poetry.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; Arabic is pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Persian literature--747-1500

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Notes (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Inlaying
• Filigree

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Nigāristān

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations: Poems
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Cloudbands
• fol. 2r — Cloudbands
• fol. 277r — Notation
• fol. 337r — Stamp
• fol. 337r — Stamp
• fol. 337r — Notations
• fol. 337v — Notations
• Inside back cover — Catalog entry
• Inside back cover — Catalog entry
• Top edge — Title