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

MS Or 404 - GREY BOX Leaf with ghazal of Ḥāfiẓ.

Title

Leaf with ghazal of Ḥāfiẓ.

Authors

Call number

MS Or 404 - GREY BOX
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

The item is undated; possibly copied in the 18th century.
Date
17--?
Place
Iran or India?

Summary

Illuminated leaf with one complete ghazal and two partial poems. Includes the three last lines of ghazal beginning "saḥar bulbul ḥikāyat bā ṣabā kard", all of ghazal beginning "saman būyān ghubār-i gham chū binshīnand binshānand" and the first two lines of ghazal beginning "sāqī ḥadīs̲-i sarv va gul va lālah mīravad".

Notes

Extent

1 page : 370 x 263 (175 x 85) mm

Support

Paper on card

Layout

  • Written in twelve lines in two columns.
  • Decoration

    Text on cloudbands with intercolumnar fill of polychrome flowers, the same fill between each poem; several sets of framing devices, from inner to outer: blue with gold leaf and vine motifs, pink with flower and stem motifs, a gold border-rule, gold, floral marginal fill, a gold frame-rule.

    Script

  • Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
  • Subjects topical

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