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

Title

Three poems on piety.

Authors

• Rājū Qitāl, Yūsuf, -1372 or 1373
  راجوقتال، يوسف،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Qādirī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, active 1845, scribe
  قادري، عبد القادر،
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 87
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124682446
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_087.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515790

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1261 A.H. (1845)

Place

India?

Summary

Three poems related to pious behavior by three different authors, copied together in the same hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, number 530, pasted in (first front flyleaf recto).
   

Extent

Iii, 204, iii leaves : 242 x 140 (152 x 76) mm bound to 243 x 145 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in black leather with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces with a frame of blind-stamped dots; red leather doublure.

Layout

10-13 lines, either two columns, or slightly staggered long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, pink; textblock border-ruled in beige and blue; page-opening frame-ruled in blue; columns ruled in beige; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate first front flyleaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Piety--Islam--Poetry
• Islam--Prayers and devotions
• Religious life--Islam--Poetry
• Islamic poetry, Persian
• Islam
• Islamic poetry, Persian
• Religious life--Islam

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Poetry
• Prayers and devotions
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Three poems on piety].
• fol. 1v — Maslak al-akhyār
• fol. 101v — Tuḥfat al-naṣāyiḥ
• fol. 173v — Madḥ-i mashāyikh

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece