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

MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX Arabic poem with painting

Title

Arabic poem with painting

Other related names

Waldron, Sherwood, former owner
Waldron, Sherwood, donor

Call number

MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with Persian heading and marginalia

Origin

Item is undated, but probably produced in the 19th century.

Date: 18--?

Summary

One leaf with poetry in Arabic on one side (recto) and a headpiece and painting of a hunt scene on the other side (verso) with the title "Qaṣāʼid-i Fārsī" under the headpiece; some marginalia in Persian.

Notes

Manuscript leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Extent

1 leaf : 200 x 150 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

16 lines in two columns with a third outside marginal column of 11 angled lines; marginalia.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in blue, gold, orange and black with polychrome floral fill above a painting of a hunt scene; rubrications in red; border-rules in green, pink, red and blue.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

Gift of Sherwood Waldron (note in pencil, recto).

Subjects topical

Arabic poetry
Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

Detached leaves
Illuminations (painting)
Miniatures (paintings)
Poetry

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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