Author
Author: Firdawsī Author: Ferdowsi
Author Original
مؤلف مؤلف فردوسي
Publication Date
The copy was completed in Rabīʻ al-Thānī 996 A.H. (March, 1588 CE) (f. 506r).
Publication Place
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Free Library of Philadelphia
Subject
LCSH: Epic poetry, Persian--Early works to 1800 | LCSH: Persian poetry--747-1500 | LCSH: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens | Form/genre: Manuscripts, Persian | Form/genre: Manuscripts, Oriental | Form/genre: Manuscripts, 17th century | Form/genre: Manuscripts, 18th century | Form/genre: Codices (bound manuscripts) | Form/genre: Epic poems | Form/genre: Illuminations (painting) | Form/genre: Manuscripts (documents) | Form/genre: Miniatures (paintings) | Form/genre: Full covers | Form/genre: Bookplates (Provenance) | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
514
Physical Dimensions
514 leaves : 340 x 210 (220 x 125) mm bound to 345 x 215 mm
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
2515787 | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124680185 | http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_052.html | https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515787
Record ID
aub-Lewis%20O%2052
Library Location
Free Library of Philadelphia
Date
The copy was completed in Rabīʻ al-Thānī 996 A.H. (March, 1588 CE) (f. 506r).
Notes
ملزم: Bound in black leather over pasteboard (Type III) with faded gold stamping of a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis and wide frame, all with finials; doublure of red leather with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis in formerly-gold tool, now green with double frame of parallel lines; back board detached. | ملاحظة الديكور: Illuminated frontispiece in blue and gold with a central circular medallion (shamsah) set into a larger blue shamsah with two pendants in blue along the vertical axis and cornerpieces also in blue, all filled with floral motifs in polychrome and gold, the remaining white space is filled with floral motifs in gold (f. 9r); dual-page illuminated opening with the text set into the middle register of three on each page within floral cloudbands, the upper and lower registers each have a gold cartouche surrounded by blue with polychrome and gold floral fill and the entire set is bordered by a wide band made of black and red cartouches all surrounded by a scalloped exterior frame in gold and blue with floral fill (f. 9v-10r); Five illuminated headpieces in gold and blue (f. 15v, 109v, 149v, 385v, 473v); 33 vibrantly colored illustrations (f. 18v, 28r, 35r, 43r, 58v, 64r, 71v, 80v, 89v, 104v, 145v, 158r, 184r, 187r, 197v, 204r, 213r, 238r, 265v, 277v, 292v, 310r, 345v, 365r, 382r, 415v, 438r, 442r, 456v, 469r, 482v, 499r, 505r); textblock border-ruled in blue, red, gold, and blue with columns ruled in gold; rubrications in red and gold. | ملاحظة الديكور: Bookplate: Oliver Henry Perkins | ملاحظة الديكور: Illuminated frontispiece | ملاحظة الديكور: Dual-page illuminated opening | ملاحظة الديكور: Illuminated headpiece | ملاحظة الديكور: Illustration | ملاحظة الديكور: Catalog entry | ترقيم الأوراق: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. | تَخطِيط: 25 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled. | ملحوظة: Ms. codex. | ملحوظة: Title from introduction (f. 4r). | ملاحظة البرنامج النصي: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed. | ملخص: Complete, illustrated copy of the Shāhnāmah on inset leaves with 31 miniatures in bright colors and gold. | more | less
Parçası Olduğu
OPenn Manuscripts of the Muslim World: | https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html
