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

Title

Yūsuf va Zulaykhā.
[يوسف و زليخا]

Authors

• Jāmī, 1414-1492
  جامى،
• 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 79
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508414
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111686640
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_079.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508414

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 988 (1580)

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of the story of Yusuf and Zulaykha as told by Jāmī with a short preface and four illustrations, the last of which was probably added later and is pasted onto the last page of the work (f. 267v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 268, i leaves : 204 x 110 (131 x 65) mm bound to 204 x 120 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); stamped and gilded central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis on a contoured field of vines and flowers with cornerpieces, also stamped and gilded with an outside frame of stamped and gilded cartouches; inside covers have reddish leather doublure with intricate mandorla and cornerpieces of gold filigree over a blue and white background.

Layout

12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Oval medallion in gold and blue with red on the first page (f. 1r) followed by a dual-page illuminated first full opening in gold and blue with red (f. 1v-2r); a headpiece in the same colors appears at the top of the story (f. 2v); numerous section dividers punctuate the text each one is a gold rectangle lined in blue with the text in white ink surrounded by small flowers in a variety of colors (orange, blue, purple, blue) (example f. 6v); textblock is border-ruled in orange, gold, brown and blue with the intercolumnal space colored in gold with black vine and leaf designs; four illustrations appear, the first three are half page with the text on cloudbands and the last one is full page, missing a corner and pasted onto the leaf (f. 86r, 139r, 145r, 167v); finispiece in gold with similar floral design to the headers (f. 167r).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

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)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Filigree
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 79: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book Department Lewis O 79: Yūsuf va Zulaykhā.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Example of illuminated text divider
• fol. 20r — Example of illuminated text divider
• fol. 86r — Illustration
• fol. 139r — Illustration
• fol. 145r — Illustration
• fol. 164v — Illuminated spacers
• fol. 165r — Illuminated spacers
• fol. 165v — Illuminated spacers
• fol. 166r — Illuminated spacers
• fol. 167r — Illuminated finispiece
• fol. 167v — Illustration