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

Title

Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn.
[فتوح الحرمين]

Authors

• Muḥyī Lārī, -1526 or 1527
  محيي لاري،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Haravī, Uvays ibn Muḥammad, active 1566, scribe
  هروي، اويس بن محمد،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 82
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460531
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210356
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_082.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460531

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1566 or 1567

Summary

Copy, somewhat damaged by worms, of a poem describing the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and some practices and customs of the pilgrimage; illustrated with 12 simple drawings, chiefly in blue, red, green.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, lot 734, pasted into front inside cover with "Sotheby's Sale 7/25/1917, £3" written in pencil underneath.
   
• Signature of H. Mohammad in blue ink (f. 1r).
   

Extent

I, 36 leaves : 152 x 90 (100 x 50) mm bound to 152 x 95 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in blue brocade with leaf patterns; plain, white, laid paper pastedowns.

Layout

15 lines, chiefly in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Simple illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 1v); textblock is border-ruled in gold, black, and blue; the columns are divided by two gold rules; rubrications in red and blue; 12 simple line drawings of places in and around the holy cities, chiefly in red, blue, and green (f. 14v, 20r, 23r, 23v, 29r, 29v, 30r, 31r, 33r, 34r, 34v, 35v).

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold at Sotheby's 25 July 1917, lot 734 (note in pencil, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Medina
• Manuscripts, Persian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--16th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Persian poetry
• Travel

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry
• fol. 1r — Signature: H. Mohammad
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 14v — Illustration
• fol. 18r — Gold frame
• fol. 20r — Illustration
• fol. 23r — Illustration
• fol. 23v — Illustration
• fol. 29r — Illustration
• fol. 29v — Illustration
• fol. 30r — Illustration
• fol. 31r — Illustration
• fol. 33r — Illustration
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 34v — Illustration
• fol. 35v — Illustration