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

Title

Calligraphy samples in Persian

Authors

• Gulāb Rāʼī, Fadwá, active 19th century
  گلاب رائي، فدوى،

Other related names

• Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner

Call number

X892.8 M311
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14974430
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196047609
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_9_M311.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14974430

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian with two leaves in Sanskrit; colophon in Urdu

Origin

Date

1823-1858?

Place

Agra, India

Summary

Set of examples of calligraphy in Persian; two leaves in Sanskrit (f. 31v-32r); leaves are written on one side only; most examples are labeled.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 42, i leaves : 183 x 115 (112 x 67) mm, bound to 192 x 115 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in plain brown leather (Type III).

Layout

Various; leaves numbered in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red ink, upper left recto.

Decoration

Numerous illustrations and calligraphic examples with floral borders; page openings with content are frame-ruled in black or red.

Script

Written primarily in styles of nastaʻlīq in black or red ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Alexander I. Cotheal (library bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp f. 1r, 42v).
   

Subjects topical

• Calligraphy, Persian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Calligraphy (visual works)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 42r — Colophon

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 42v — Stamp