Author
Author: Firdawsī Author: Ferdowsi
Author Original
مؤلف مؤلف فردوسي
Publication Date
The item is undated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century.
Publication Place
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Free Library of Philadelphia
Subject
LCSH: Persian poetry--747-1500 | LCSH: Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens | LCSH: Manuscripts, Persian--19th century | LCSH: Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century | Form/genre: Codices (bound manuscripts) | Form/genre: Epic poems | Form/genre: Manuscripts (documents) | Form/genre: Miniatures (paintings) | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
539
Physical Dimensions
539 leaves : 435 x 275 (315 x 195) mm bound to 450 x 290 mm
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID
2441493 | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083643701 | https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441493
Record ID
aub-Lewis%20O%2058
Library Location
Free Library of Philadelphia
Date
The item is undated, but likely produced in the first half of the 19th century.
Notes
ملزم: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard with red leather doublure. | ملاحظة الديكور: Dual page floriate illuminated first opening in gold, red, and blue with 5 lines of text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r). Second illuminated header in the same colors (f. 273v). Floriate illuminated panels in gold red and blue across two columns indicate text divisions and appear numerously throughout the manuscript. 119 vividly colored miniatures, mostly half-page size (f. 19v, 23v, 27r, 42r, 45v, 52r, 55v, 57r-57v, 73v, 76r, 77v, 85r, 90r, 95r, 98r, 107r, 122r, 124v, 127v-128r, 132r, 138r, 144r, 146v, 148r, 154r, 156r, 169v, 174r, 179v-180r, 183v, 185r, 188r, 190v, 195v, 201v, 205r-205v, 215v, 217r, 227r-231v [a set of battle images], 235r-235v, 246v, 248v, 253r, 260r, 263v, 265r, 267v, 271v, 272r, 276r, 278v, 280v, 290r, 297r, 299r-299v, 300v, 304r, 306v, 311v, 316r, 318r, 320v, 322r, 324r, 329r, 333v, 336r, 339r, 340r, 342r, 328r, 354r, 355r, 356v, 358v, 363r, 365v, 367r, 371v, 376v, 388r, 395v, 399v, 420v, 431r, 435v, 437r, 441v, 454v, 463r, 473r, 477v, 481r, 484v, 487r, 493r, 499r, 500r, 503r, 507v, 511v, 526v, 530v, 533v). In many of the images, the king resembles Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shāh of the Qajar dynasty. | ملاحظة الديكور: Dual page illumination | ملاحظة الديكور: Example of illuminated text dividers | ملاحظة الديكور: Illustration | ملاحظة الديكور: Illuminated headpiece | ترقيم الأوراق: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. | تَخطِيط: After the first opening, pages generally laid out in 25 lines per page in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled and page-opening frame-ruled. | ملحوظة: Ms. codex. | ملحوظة: Title from caption title (f. 1v). | ملاحظة البرنامج النصي: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed. | ملخص: Copy of the Shāhnāmah with 119 miniatures. A list of rulers and the length of their rule is pasted in before the text begins (f. 1v). | more | less
Parçası Olduğu
OPenn Manuscripts of the Muslim World: | https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html
