Description of Columbia University MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX: Arabic poem with painting Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX: Arabic poem with painting are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX: Arabic poem with painting. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript leaf. Title supplied by cataloger. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 466 - GREEN BOX 14380131 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126812406 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_466.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14380131 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. Arabic with Persian heading and marginalia Arabic poem with painting former owner Waldron, Sherwood donor Waldron, Sherwood [1]r [Arabic poem with painting]

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 1 leaf : 200 x 150 mm 16 lines in two columns with a third outside marginal column of 11 angled lines; marginalia. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. 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. Illuminated headpiece Illustration

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

18--? Gift of Sherwood Waldron (note in pencil, recto). Arabic poetry Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, Persian Detached leaves Illuminations (painting) Miniatures (paintings) Poetry