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

Title

Ātishkadah.
آتشکده

Authors

• Āz̲ar Baygdilī, Luṭf ʻAlī ibn Āqā Khān, 1721 or 1722-1780 or 1781
  آذر بيگدلى، لطف على بن آقا خان،

Other related names

• Yohannan, Abraham, 1853-1925, former owner
• Yohannan, Abraham, 1853-1925, donor

Call number

X892.8 L977 O Q [Folio]
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15003420
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199365314
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_L977_O_Q.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15003420

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

18--

Summary

Biographical dictionary of Persian poets with copious poetic quotations.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Several stamps, some mostly erased (f. 1r, 2r, 89v) and notes (inside front cover, f. 1r); drawing of a horse (inside back cover).
   

Extent

244 leaves : 293 x 200 (250 x 145) mm, bound to 298 x 207 x 32 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather with gilt stamped central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; blind tooled frame.

Layout

Written in 25 lines in 1 to 4 columns, sometimes with a fifth outside, angled, marginal column.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq shikastah in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Professor A. Yohannan, Nov. 18, 1913 (note in pencil, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by Abraham Yohannan (note in pencil, f. 1r; library donor plate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--History and criticism--Early works to 1800
• Persian poetry--Biography--Early works to 1800
• Poets, Persian--Biography--Dictionary--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Ātishkadah.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in ink
• Inside front cover — Library donor plate
• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 1r — Stamp
• Inside back cover — Drawing of horse