Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Abvāb al-jinān.
ابواب الجنان

Authors

• Vāʻiẓ Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Rafīʻ, 1617 or 1618-1678 or 1679
  واعظ قزوىنى، محمد رفيع،

Call number

X892.8 Ab9 O [Folio]
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14840151
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152175307
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_Ab9_O.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14840151

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Place

1833.

Summary

Collection of religious and moral exhortations.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from flyleaf inscription.
   
• Series of birth notes in Persian dated 1241 (1825-26), 1249 (1833-34), 1253 (1837-38) and 1255 (1839-40) (f. 1r). Another inscription including the dates 1280-1282 (1863-66) (f. 1r).
   
• Detailed vocabulary glosses in the margin in English (f. 1v).
   

Extent

I, 294 leaves : 294 x 197 (224 x 120) mm, bound to 300 x 205 mm

Support

Laid paper with watermark

Binding

Brown leather (Type III) with stamped onlay central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; blind-tooled frame; plain paper doublure.

Layout

16 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Acquired by Columbia University in November 1930.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Notes (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Onlays (decorative components)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Abvāb al-jinān

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Birth notes in ink
• fol. 1r — Notation in ink
• fol. 294v — Stamp