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

Title

Laylī va Majnūn.
[ليلى و مجنون]

Authors

• Maktabī Shīrāzī, -1510 or 1511
  مکتبى شيرازى،

Other related names

• Kirmānī, Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Rafīʻ, scribe
  كرماني، محمد جعفر بن محمد رفيع.
• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 272
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13806436
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090643634
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_272.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13806436

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1820 or 1821

Place

Iran?

Summary

Acephalous copy of the story of Layli and Majnun told in verse; this copy begins with the third line of section "Shawq-i Nawfal bi-khiyāl-i Majnūn".

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

44 unnumbered leaves : 145 x 80 (105 x 55) mm, bound to 145 x 80 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather with blind stamped oblong cartouche and blind tooled frame.

Layout

13 lines in two columns; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Textblock border ruled in pink and blue with page-opening ruled in pink. Interlinear gold wash to resemble cloudbands probably added by a later hand; it partially obscures the titles in some instances. Titles in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936.
   
• Formerly owned by George Arthur Plimpton (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Poems
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Laylī va Majnūn].

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"