Author
Zakī Hamadānī, -1620 or 1621?, Zakī Hamadānī
Author Original
زكى همدانى
Publication Date
1825
Subject
Persian poetry -- 747-1500, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
107 leaves : paper ; 140 x 94 (102 x 54) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194799461
Record ID
990068195600106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1825
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "No breeze came to Egypt from Canaan that did not fan the fire of Zulikha...", Colophon: "Scribal," reads "Namqah al-Aql [?] Al-Abd Abd al-Rashid ... in the city of Ramadan al-Mubarak in the year 1240 [?]...", Collation: VI-1 (7), 7 IV(63), III (69), 4 IV(101), III (107); almost exclusively quaternions with two ternions; final leaf left blank; catchwords present., Layout: Written in 14 lines per page, mainly divided into two columns; frame-ruled., Script: Shikastah elegant hand serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated 'horizontal' strokes., Decoration: Keywords (mainly in margins at the end of each line) and section headings rubricated; races of once "gold" (now gone to green) cloud-bands on opening leaf (facing now lost incipit page); written area surrounded by frame consisting of "gold" band defined by black fillets with outermost light blue fillet, columns within and margin defined by narrow "gold" bands outlined by black fillets., Support: non-European laid (likely Indian or Persian) paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite distinct) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished, sturdy, and fairly translucent though stained a dark brown., Binding: Red-brown (see turn-ins) coarse-grained leather lined in untinted laid paper (limp binding); Type III binding (without flap), two piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine); upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps; sewn in lime green thread, two stations; endbands virtually gone, although core of headband remains; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, moisture damage, staining, spine curved and fore edge protruding, etc., Former shelfmark: "426 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover., Accompanying materials: Folded slip of paper with notes in blue ink in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "366 A Dīvān, probably that of Amīr Khusraw of Delhi (but I should need rapid copies of some folios to verify this). 19th century - the paper suggests India. at close partially effaced inscriptions on final leaf and interior of lower cover., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 366
Sample Text
Worn, acephalous copy of a selection of poetry, possibly from the Dīvān of Zakī Hamadānī (see Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī, no.2352). Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī. al-Dharīʻah ilá taṣānīf al-Shīʻah, no.2352, vol.9, p.403
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
