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

Title

Dīvān-i Viṣāl.
[ديوان وصال]

Authors

• Viṣāl Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, 1782 or 1783-1845 or 1846
  وصال شيرازى، محمد شفيع بن محمد اسماعيل،
• 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 85
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450061
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091900536
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450061

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1800? and 1846

Place

Iran

Summary

Copy of some of the poetry of Viṣāl, including short poems and the beginning of Bazm-i Viṣāl; five leaves have been ruled but left unwritten.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r)
   

Extent

132 leaves : 193 x 120 (134 x 57) mm bound to 195 x 123 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered boards with bird and flowers and a gold frame, front and back covers identical. Inside covers show a bright red field with a gold central medallion, four pendants along the vertical axis and a gold frame with corner flourishes.

Layout

Two layouts: for the short poetry section (f. 4v-59r), 17 lines in two columns, often with a centered couplet and 26 marginal lines on two sides, written at angles; for the Bazm-i Viṣāl section (f. 61v-130v), 15 lines in two columns, with 10 lines in the fore-edge column written at an angle; rules between all columns and around textblock

Decoration

Two illuminated headpieces chiefly in gold and blue with the text on the full page-opening written on cloudbands (f. 4v-5r, 61v-62r). Rules in gold around the textblock, between the columns, and along the angled marginal lines; page-opening also framed with a gold rule.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--19th century
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4v — [Dīvān-i Viṣāl].
• fol. 61v — Bazm-i Viṣāl

Decorations

• fol. 4v — Illuminated headpiece and marginal fill
• fol. 5r — Text in cloudbands; foliate fill
• fol. 61v — Illuminated headpiece and marginal fill
• fol. 62r — Text in cloudbands
• fol. 62r — Illuminated text divider