Author
Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam
Author Original
عمر خيام
Publication Date
1688
Subject
Persian poetry > 747-1500. Quatrains, Persian > Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Persian.
Type
Document
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
48 paginated leaves : paper, illuminations ; 145 x 88 (108 x 58) mm, bound to 155 x 90 mm manuscript
Library
Columbia University Libraries
Library Asset ID
Call Number: MS Or 344
Record ID
13848487
Library Location
Online
Date
1688
Notes
Manuscript codex. Title from caption title (p. [1]). Layout: 20 lines in two columns; border-ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, green with border-rules in blue and gold and gold leaf motifs between the columns (p. [1]); the rest of the pages are border-ruled in gold and blue with red horizontal lines dividing the quatrains. Some leaves are gold speckled in the textblock area. Origin: Copy completed on 15 Muḥarram in the year 1100 A.H. (November 1688) by Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, a resident of Iṣfahān (p. 78). Shelfmark: MS Or 344. Smith note: "I think there are 767 quatrains there, a few less than the Calcutta Ms." (flyleaf 1 recto, at back of book). Also available as a digital facsimile. Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Brown leather over pasteboard with blind stamped central toronja and blind tooled frame; gold speckled (now green) paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Sample Text
Collection of quatrains.
Ayrıca Şu Başlıklar Altında
Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Subḥān, active 1688, scribe. محمد عبد السبحان، active 1688, Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner. Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Köken
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith, "I bought this MS at a Persian dealer in Lahore, India, in December, 1907" (signed note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso at front of book).
Sırt Başlığı
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Tekdüzen Başlık
Rubāʻīyāt
WorldCat
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097683023
