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

Title

Other related names

• Ibn Muḥammad Riz̤ā Muḥammad, active 1716, scribe
  ابن محمد رضا محمد،
• Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥasanī, active 1658, scribe
  حاجى محمد حسنى،
• Tabrīzī, Ḥusayn, scribe
  تبريزي، حسين،
• Reinhardt, Carl, 1856-1903, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011112
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106032053
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_M31.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011112

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1650-1750?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Manuscript specimens of Persian songs, writing, illustrations and illuminations by different artists, mounted in a scrapbook.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Owner's stamp on f. 12v.
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

14 illustrations using different techniques and 16 calligraphic panels framed in either purple or brown and mounted on reddish-orange leaves. The illustrations include four battle scenes (f. 4v, 5r, 7v, 15r), five depictions of single individuals (f. 8r, 11v, 13v-14v), two drawings of animals (f. 16v, 17r), a flower (f. 12r), and two illustrated scenes from stories (f. 9v-10r).

Script

Provenance

• Purchased for Columbia with funds donated by J. Dyneley Prince, James Speyer and Jacob H. Schiff; accessioned 1905 (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Carl Reinhardt; purchased from his estate.
   

Subjects topical

• Calligraphy, Persian--Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Albums (books)
• Compilation manuscripts
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library X892.8 M31: Persian calligraphy and illustration album. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library X892.8 M31: Persian calligraphy and illustration album.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Persian calligraphy and illustration album].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Donation Bookplate: "Messrs Prince, Speyer & Schiff"
• fol. 1r — Library note
• fol. 1v — Text panel
• fol. 2r — Text panel
• fol. 3r — Text panel
• fol. 3v — Illuminated text
• fol. 4r — Illuminated text
• fol. 4v — Illustration: Battle scene
• fol. 5r — Illustration: Battle scene
• fol. 6r — Text panel
• fol. 6v — Shikastah panel
• fol. 7r — Shikastah panel
• fol. 7v — Illustration: Battle scene
• fol. 8r — Illustration: Individual
• fol. 8v — Text panel
• fol. 9r — Text panel
• fol. 9v — Illustrated scene
• fol. 10r — Illustrated scene
• fol. 10v — Illuminated text
• fol. 11r — Illuminated text
• fol. 11v — Illustration: Individual
• fol. 12r — Illustration: Flower
• fol. 12v — Shikastah panel
• fol. 12v — Stamp
• fol. 13r — Shikastah panel
• fol. 13v — Illlustration: Individual
• fol. 14r — Illlustration: Individual
• fol. 14v — Illlustration: Individual
• fol. 15r — Illlustration: Battle scene
• fol. 15v — Text panel
• fol. 16r — Illuminated text
• fol. 16v — Illustration: Bovine
• fol. 17r — Illustration: Lion