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

Title

Bahār-i dānish.
بهار دانش

Authors

• ʻInāyat Allāh, -approximately 1671
  عناية الله،

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 374
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13884815
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101675708
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_374.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13884815

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

India?

Summary

Collection of romantic tales in Persian derived from Indian sources. Large areas of text pasted over between f. 405 and 414.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Effaced owner's statement (f. 451v); partially removed bookplate with the initials MLP [?] (inside back cover).
   

Extent

451 leaves : 240 x 150 (180 x 100) mm, bound to 235 x 155 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, four thin, radial lines and frame made up of blind tooled dots.

Layout

13 long lines; catchwords every verso.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Alexander Isaac Cotheal.
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander Isaac Cotheal (stamp f. 2r, 451v, second to last flyleaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Tales--India--Early works to 1800
• Persian literature--1500-1796
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Bahār-i dānish.