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Title

Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī.
نوادر مجموعۀ ىعقويى

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Mūsāʼī, Yaʻqūb ibn Ilyās, active 18th century-19th century, editor
  موسائي، يعقوب بن الياس،
• Mūsāʼī, Yaʻqūb ibn Ilyās, active 18th century-19th century, scribe
  موسائي، يعقوب بن الياس،
• Kashmīrī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, active 18th century-19th century, binder
  كشميري، عبد الرحيم،
• Kashmīrī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, active 18th century-19th century, illuminator
  كشميري، عبد الرحيم،
• Bamizai, Sher Muhammad Khan, -1807 or 1808, dedicatee
  شىر محمد خان،
• Johnson, Allen Bayard, 1829-1907, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 86
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515789
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124682487
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_086.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515789

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1805 or 1806

Place

Kashmīr

Summary

Elaborately illuminated collection of poetry and prose from a wide variety of Persian writers. A table of contents lists 118 sections. The work is dedicated to Ḥāfiẓ Shīr Muḥammad Khān Mukhtār al-Dawlah Bahādur, a governor of Kashmir (f. 3v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 887r).
   

Extent

Ii, 887, ii leaves : 226 x 136 (160 x 75) mm bound to 230 x 148 mm

Foliation

Contemporary pagination in Persian in red ink, upper left recto (1-604 with inconsistencies); modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto to complete the series (605-887); catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in lacquered illustrated boards with gilt-stamped red leather edges. Outside covers have red, orange, and yellow flowers on a dark green field; inside covers have gilded floral fill on a dark red background with a central gilded mandorla and four pendants on the vertical axis; polychrome flowers fill the mandorla and pendants.

Layout

Various layouts; poetry chiefly 20 lines in two columns with ten lines at angles in each column; prose in 12 long lines.

Decoration

The whole text is elaborately decorated with numerous illuminated panels throughout, mostly floral in polychrome and gold. A dual-page illuminated index grid opens the work (f. 1v-2r). Finely detailed dual-page illuminated openings with titles and responsibility statements in blue and gold (f. 2v-3r, 10v-11r); illuminated dedication with the text on cloudbands with polychrome flower fill and illuminated borders (f. 3v-5r); illuminated opening pages for each new section in polychrome and gold, chiefly dual-page (f. 28v-29r, 68v-69r, 83v-84r, 377v-378r, 465v-466r, 470v-471r, 474r, 481v-482r, 544r, 609v-610r, 711v-712r, 819v-820r, 869v-870r, 886v-887r). Textblock is gold sprinkled and border-ruled in gold and black with white dots; intercolumnar space ruled in gold and filled with gold foliate motifs that vary in style or with blue and gold illuminated fill; page-opening ruled in gold with gold vignettes in the corners and in the middle of each long edge of the page frame.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Allen Johnson who removed it from the Lucknow Palace Library (signed note in pen on paper dated 1858 pasted onto first flyleaf verso at back of book).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--Early works to 1800
• Persian literature--Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Anthologies
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Full covers
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Navādir Majmūʻah-ʼi Yaʻqūbī.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Table of contents
• fol. 2r — Table of contents
• fol. 2v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 3r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 3v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 3v — Cloudbands
• fol. 3v — Illuminated margins
• fol. 4r — Cloudbands
• fol. 4r — Illuminated margins
• fol. 4v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 4v — Cloudbands
• fol. 4v — Illuminated margins
• fol. 5r — Cloudbands
• fol. 5r — Illuminated margins
• fol. 5v — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 6r — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 6v — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 7r — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 7v — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 8r — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 8v — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 9r — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 9v — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 10r — Gilded marginal details
• fol. 10r — Illuminated fill
• fol. 10v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 10v — Cloudbands
• fol. 11r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 11r — Cloudbands
• fol. 11v — Example of illuminated intercolumnal fill
• fol. 11v — Simple gilded marginal details (every page)
• fol. 12r — Illuminated medallion
• fol. 13r — Example of illuminated text division
• fol. 28v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 29r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 52r — Example of illuminated fill
• fol. 68v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 69r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 83v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 84r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• Unnumbered i verso — Dual-page illuminated opening
• Unnumbered ii recto — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 117v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 118r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 123v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 124r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 166r — Gilded foliate fill
• fol. 184v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 185r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 192v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 193r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 200v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 201r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 205v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 206r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 215v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 216r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 217v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 218r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 220v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 221r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 222v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 223r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 226v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 227r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 230v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 231r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 232v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 233r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 237v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 238r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 244v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 245r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 247v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 248r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 257v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 258r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 296v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 297r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 311v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 312r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 322v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 339v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 340r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 377v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 378r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 434v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 435r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 465v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 466r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 470v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 471r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 473v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 474r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 481v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 482r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 519v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 520r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 543v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 544r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 609v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 610r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 645v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 646r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 696v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 697r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 711v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 712r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 819v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 820r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 869v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 870r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 881v — Larger illuminated text divider
• fol. 883v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 883v — Illuminated margins
• fol. 884r — Illuminated margins
• fol. 884v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 884v — Illuminated margins
• fol. 885r — Illuminated margins
• fol. 885v — Illuminated margins
• fol. 886r — Illuminated finispiece
• fol. 886r — Illuminated margins
• fol. 886v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 887r — Dual-page illuminated opening