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

Title

Collection of Persian poetry

Authors

• Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
  امير خسرو دهلوى،
• Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century
  حافظ،
• Salmān Sāvajī, -1376
  سلمان ساوجى،
• Bisāṭī Samarqandī, -1411
  بساطى سمرقندى،
• ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289?
  عراقى، فخر الدين ابراهيم،
• ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289?
  عراقى، فخر الدين ابراهيم،
• Ibn Yamīn, Fakhr al-Dīn Maḥmūd, 1287 or 1288-1367 or 1368
  ابن يمين، فخر الدين محمود، 1287 or 1288-1367 or 1368
• Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century
  حكيم ترمذى، محمد بن على،
• Busḥāq Aṭʻimah Shīrāzī, Ḥallāj, active 15th century
  بسحاق اطعمة شيراىي، حلاج،
• Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
  نظامى گنجوى،

Other related names

• ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, active 1432, scribe
  على بن حکيم ترمذى،
• Mīrzā ʻAlī Aṣghar, Kitābfurūsh, active 1935, bookseller
  ميرزا على اصغر،
• Nafīsī, Saʻīd, 1895-1966, former owner
  نفيسى، سعيد،

Call number

MS Or 452
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14840038
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1152173000
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_452.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14840038

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1432

Place

Iran?

Summary

Collection of Persian poetry with an introductory table of contents by Saʻīd Nafīsī, a former owner (p.1). Several leaves copied by Nafīsī and inserted. They include two poems by Ḥāfiẓ (p. 156); 12 pages containing poems from the margins of a copy of Khusraw Dihlavī (p.197b-197l); and two poems missing from the Dīvān of Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī (unnumbered page after p. 259).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; titles of component parts from table of contents (p. 1).
   

Extent

I, 180 paginated leaves : 233 x 140 (175 x 90) mm, bound to 235 x 140 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Light brown leather faintly blind-stamped with central mandorla, six pendants, four on the vertical axis and two on the horizontal, and cornerpieces; blind-tooled double frame; plain paper doublure.

Layout

21 long lines; chiefly in two columns; no catchwords; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and colors (p. 61, 199); polychrome illuminated headers with leaf and vine motifs (p. 1, 125, 157, 305); textblock border-ruled in blue and red or blue and gold; columns and sections ruled in red; rubrications in red, green, blue, gold; some poetry set off by red markers.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; headings in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Forms part of the Saʻīd Nafīsī collection purchased by Columbia Unversity in 1961 (library bookplate inside back cover).
   
• Sold by Mīrzā ʻAlī Aṣghar Kitābfurūsh [bookseller] to Saʻīd Nafīsī in Tehran in Ābān 1314 (October 1935 CE) (note in ink, p. 200 [=0])
   
• Formerly owned by Saʻīd Nafīsī, number 3494 (stamp and note in ink, p. 200 [=0])
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Ghazalīyāt-i Khusraw Dihlavī
• 30 — Ghazalīyāt-i Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī
• 61 — Ashʻār-i Salmān Sāvajī
• 125 — [Ghazalīyāt]
• 157 — Dīvān-i Bisāṭī Samarqandī
• 197b — Added pages
• 199 — Ashʻār-i Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī
• 230 — Lamaʻāt-i Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī
• 241 — Tarkībʹband va ashʻār-i dīgar-i ʻIrāqī
• 254 — Muqaṭṭaʻāt-i Ibn Yamīn
• 260 — Ashʻār-i Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī
• 305 — Fī bayān-i munāẓirah-ʼi al-Aṭʻimah
• 325 — Muntakhab-i mas̲navīyāt-i Khusraw Dihlavī va Niẓāmī

Decorations

• 1 — Illuminated headpiece
• 61 — Illuminated headpiece
• 125 — Illuminated header
• 157 — Illuminated header
• 188 — Stamp (smudged)
• 198 — Stamps
• 198 — Notations
• 199 — Illuminated header
• 305 — Illuminated header
• Inside back cover — Library bookplate
• Inside back cover — Library acquisition plate