Author
Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī, -1453,
Author Original
امير شاهى سبزوارى ابن على قطب الدين اليزدى
Publication Date
1510
Subject
Persian poetry -- 747-1500, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
36 leaves : paper ; 155 x 87 (105 x 44) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194786285
Record ID
990068141310106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1510
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2., Incipit: "O headpiece, the name of your handwriting is with our nature, this is what was said from the day of eternity, our head was written...", Explicit: "How many words will I say, every turn, I love you, nothing else ", Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, mainly in Arabic, reads "Tam shasht al-abiyat al-Abd al-Fair al-Lataf al-Samadi Ibn Ali Qutb al-Din al-Yazdi Ghor Zanoba Wester Defects in the beginning of Rajab al-Murjab from the months of the sixteenth year and the nineteenth year of the Hijra Al-Nabiyyah Al-Mustafawiyyah, peace be upon him, the best of the prayers and the complete delivery", Collation: i, 2 III(12), II (16), III (22), V (32), II (36), i; ternions, binions, and a quinion; present catchwords; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through "29"; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area mainly divided into two columns; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq; compact, elegant Persianate hand; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes., Decoration: Elegant (though damaged) illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the title in white ("Diwan Molana Shahi") surrounded by swirling vegetal decoration in black, cartouche surrounded by swirling floral vegetal designs in gold, yellow, red, white and pink on a field of blue with gold accents, surmounted by triangular piece or hasp with upper most pendant and vertical stalks (tīgh) continuing floral vegetal design on gold and lapis lazuli; written area (and columns within) surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule; centered panels of written area left blank., Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, faint and indistinct) and no chain lines clearly visible, well-burnished, beige in color; staining and tidelines; many bifolia guarded with recycled manuscript "waste"; flyleaves in European laid paper., Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather; Type II binding (with flap); board linings in pink-tinted laid paper; front edge flap lined in green silk; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted (on orange recessed inlays) rosette / mandorla (filled with vegetal composition vaguely reminiscent of Déroche class. OAi2 1) and corner pieces along with tooled rosettes and gold-painted accents and border in a series of s-shaped stamps; sewn in pink thread, two stations; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, dirty, tailband damaged; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather at spine and fore edge flap, minor pest damage, etc., Former shelfmark: "406 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.69, copied by Ibn ʻAli Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yazdī with transcription completed in the first part of Rajab 916 [October 1510]., Inscription in pencil on front flyleaf verso "406 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; inventory mark and basmalah on recto of front flyleaf; various notes and excerpts (some effaced) on 'title page' (p.1) and final leaves (pp.70-72); marginal glosses., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 323
Sample Text
Elegant copy of the Divan by Amir Shahi, by Aq Malik ibn Amir Jamal al-Din in Sabzawarī (d.1453).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Ibn ʻAlī Quṭb al-Dīn al-Yazdī, active 1510, scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Cat. Pers. MSS. Brit. Mus., p.640, Rypka, p.284
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
Konular (Diğer)
Headpieces (layout features)
