Author
Vaḥīd Tabrīzī, active 1417.
Publication Date
[1475-1499?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Persian language, Persian language /
Versification, Persian language / Versification /
Early works to 1800., Headpieces (layout features)
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
40
Physical Dimensions
40 leaves : paper ; 156 x 101 (110 x 55) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006805296
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Elegant copy of the brief treatise on Persian prosody by Vaḥīd al-Dīn Tabrīzī (fl. 1417). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 275
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, etc. may suggest late 15th or even 16th century.
Former shelfmark: "423 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on interior of upper cover.
Binding: Marbled laid paper (ebru in light blue, pink, yellow, dark blue) with dark blue cloth over spine ; limp (no boards) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; reverse of paper is undecorated and untinted ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc. ; textblock has certainly been trimmed (with attempt to avoid loss of catchwords) and carries traces of an envelope flap from a previous (if not the original) cover.
Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly indistinct) and no clear chain lines visible ; cloudy formation, sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished ; repairs to some leaves.
Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche in lapis lazuli carrying a form of the basmalah ("باسمه سبحانه و تعالى") flanked by rosette pendants in black and surrounded by elegant swirling floral vegetal composition in red, yellow, turquoise, pink, etc. on a gold ground with lapis accents, all surrounded by borders of gold and lapis bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in lapis ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; two-teeth stroke abbreviation symbol (overlining keywords) in red ; numerous diagrams (addressing meters, etc.) in red and black ink (see p.25, 26, 27, 28, 62, 64, 65).
Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.
Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: V-1 (9), 2 V(29), V+1 (40) ; quinions (first and last anomalous) ; p.64 left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "هر كس كه علم قافيه اين مقدار بداند او را كفايت باشد تم"
Incipit: "شکر و سپاس واجب التعظيمى را كه بتشريف نطق انسان را مشرف ساخت ... اما بعد اين مختصر يست از منشات وحيد تبريزى در علم عروض و قافيه و صنايع شعر ... و اين را جمع مختصر نام نهاد و بالله التوفيق ..."
Title from opening matter on p.2.
Ms. codex.
Occasional marginal corrections (with accompanying signes de renvoi) and glosses.
