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

Title

Gulshan-i ʻishq.
گلشن عشق

Authors

• Nuṣratī, -1673
  نصرتى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥammad Ghawth Suwār, scribe
  محمد غوث سوار،
• Rājah Kishān Rāj Bahādur, commissioner
  راجه كشان راج بهادر،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 98
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515768
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124678632
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_098.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515768

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Hindustani

Origin

Date

A.H. 1231 (1816)

Place

India

Summary

Illustrated copy of the story of Prince Manohar and Madhumālatī, over 200 detailed and brightly colored illustrations with extensive use of silver and gold.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1v).
   
• Cataloging assitance by Murtaza Shakir and Alifiya Diwan.
   

Extent

Iii, 205, iii leaves : 292 x 180 (216 x 112) mm bound to 297 x 185 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with blind-stamped central mandorla and frame inlay and a border register made of gilt-stamped cartouches; plain reddish leather doublure; red painted edges.

Layout

17 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

The first-opening textblock is painted yellow with a floral headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1v-2r); the textblock and columns are border-ruled in gold and red with the intercolumnar space filled with red for the first 10 leaves; page-openings frame-ruled in blue; 214 illustrations appearing on almost every page in full-page, half-page or quarter-page oblongs with liberal use of gold and silver.

Script

Written in Indian nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Indic literature
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Indic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Gulshan-i ʻishq.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illumnated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Painted paper
• fol. 2r — Painted paper
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 28v — Illustration
• fol. 30r — Illustration
• fol. 30v — Illustration
• fol. 31v — Illustration
• fol. 32r — Illustration
• fol. 32v — Illustration
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 34v — Illustration
• fol. 36r — Illustration
• fol. 36v — Illustration
• fol. 37r — Illustration
• fol. 37v — Illustration
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• fol. 40r — Illustration
• fol. 40v — Illustration
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• fol. 52v — Illustration
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