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

Title

Collection of stories in Hindustani.

Authors

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

Other related names

• Purshād walad Khūb Chand, scribe
  پرشاد ولد خوب چند،
• Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī, former owner
  آغا فصاحت على،
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 99
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515781
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679539
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_099.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515781

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Hindustani

Origin

Date

A.H. 1251 (1835)

Place

India

Summary

Incomplete collection of stories, the main one about a Judge being tempted by a beautiful woman upon the order of the King, Muʻalī; 14 vibrantly colored illustrations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• "Aga Fasahut ally in Benares" note in ink (flyleaf 1 recto at front of book).
   

Watermark

R. Turner Chafford Mill 1834.

Extent

I, 43, i leaves : 228 x 175 (155 x 110) mm bound to 235 x 190 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind-stamped and gilded onlays of a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and three frames with inside covers also of reddish brown leather with a simpler mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces in gilt-stamped onlays.

Layout

9 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in blue and red (f. 1v); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in red and blue; 14 illustrations with captions in contour bands (f. 23r, 23v, 25r, 27r, 29r, 31r, 33r, 34r, 35r, 37v-38r, 39r, 40r, 41r)

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī and purchased from "a person whose father was the grand vizier Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Dawlah Bahādur, for the father of the Mahārājah Rājah" [incomplete] (Simsar, 175) (f. 1r).
   
• Sold at Sotheby's Feb. 1925, lot 165 (catalog entry pasted to front flyleaf recto and note in pencil).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Indic literature

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Collection of stories in Hindustani].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 23r — Illustration
• fol. 23v — Illustration
• fol. 25r — Illustration
• fol. 27r — Illustration
• fol. 29r — Illustration
• fol. 31r — Illustration
• fol. 33r — Illustration
• fol. 34r — Illustration
• fol. 35r — Illustration
• fol. 37v — Illustration
• fol. 38r — Illustration
• fol. 39r — Illustration
• fol. 40r — Illustration
• fol. 41r — Illustration