Description of Columbia University MS Or 452: Collection of Persian poetry

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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).

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

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i, 180 paginated leaves : 233 x 140 (175 x 90) mm, bound to 235 x 140 mm 21 long lines; chiefly in two columns; no catchwords; border-ruled. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed; headings in thuluth; pointed and vocalized. 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. Notations in ink Notations in ink Owner's notations in ink Stamp and number Illuminated headpiece Illuminated headpiece Illuminated header Illuminated header Stamp (smudged) Stamps Notations Illuminated header Illuminated header Library bookplate Library acquisition plate

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.

Copy completed in Muḥarram 836 AH (1432 CE) by ʻAlī ibn Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī (p. 240).

1432 Iran? 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]) Persian poetry--747-1500 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Illuminations (painting) Blind tooled (decoration) Stamps (Provenance) Annotations (Provenance) Early works