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

Title

Anvār-i Suhaylī.
انوار سهيلى

Authors

• Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
  كاشفي، حسين واعظ، 1504 يا 1505

Other related names

• Iṣfahānī, Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar, active 1816, scribe
  اصفهاني، صادق بن محمد جعفر،
• Cochran, Alexander Smith, 1874-1929, former owner

Call number

X892.8 B472
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011716
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106559255
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_B472.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011716

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1816

Summary

Persian adaptation of animal fables.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 6r).
   
• Typewritten description of the manuscript by Abraham Yohannan laid in.
   

Extent

I, 340, i leaves : 205 x 135 (145 x 95) mm, bound to 210 x 140 x 40 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Lacquered boards; outside covers depict a single plant with several large flowers in orange and blue on a black field with a frame; inside covers depict plant with yellow flowers on a red field with black frame.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red (f. 1v) with illuminated foliate, polychrome marginal fill with the text on cloudbands on first opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; rubrications in red; 39 color illustrations.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Fables, Persian
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Anvār-i Suhaylī

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 9v — Illustration
• fol. 18r — Illustration
• fol. 30v — Illustration
• fol. 33v — Illustration
• fol. 43r — Illustration
• fol. 48v — Illustration
• fol. 52v — Illustration
• fol. 61v — Illustration
• fol. 70r — Illustration
• fol. 74v — Illustration
• fol. 88r — Illustration
• fol. 91v — Illustration
• fol. 94v — Illustration
• fol. 97r — Illustration
• fol. 103v — Illustration
• fol. 108v — Illustration
• fol. 118v — Illustration
• fol. 121v — Illustration
• fol. 129v — Illustration
• fol. 143r — Illustration
• fol. 152r — Illustration
• fol. 156r — Illustration
• fol. 169v — Illustration
• fol. 178r — Illustration
• fol. 184v — Illustration
• fol. 186r — Illustration
• fol. 190r — Illustration
• fol. 206r — Illustration
• fol. 218r — Illustration
• fol. 223v — Illustration
• fol. 233v — Illustration
• fol. 243r — Illustration
• fol. 254r — Illustration
• fol. 265r — Illustration
• fol. 296v — Illustration
• fol. 304r — Illustration
• fol. 311v — Illustration
• fol. 322r — Illustration
• fol. 333v — Illustration