Author
Asheg Isfahani, Mohammad d. 1768 or 9., Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918
Author Original
عاشق اصفهاني محمد
Publication Date
1817]
Publication Place
-
[Isfahan, 1817].
Subject
Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry
Michigan—Ann Arbor
1500-1796
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Persian poetry—1500-1796
Manuscripts, Persian—Michigan—Ann Arbor
Répertoire de Vedettes-Matière
Poésie persane—1500-1796
Manuscrits persans—Michigan—Ann Arbor
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
headpieces (layout features)
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (272 leaves) : paper
Library
McGill University Libraries
Library Asset ID
1420508889
Record ID
1420508889
Date
1817]
Notes
Script: Shikastah (shikastah-nastaʻlīq / شكسته نستعليق); elegant hand; serifless with sweeping elongated horizontal strokes, free assimilation of letters, misplaced (or distant, or unexpectedly combined) pointing, uncurved final yāʼ, etc.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Collation: 34 IV(272); exclusively quaternions; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).
Layout: Written in 16 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns; frame-ruled.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying the basmalah in blue flanked by floral vegetal designs (in gold, red-orange, blue, white, etc.) on fields of blue (approaching lapis lazuli), red and gold, surmounted by large w-shaped piece filled with swirling arabesque and floral motifs in gold, red-orange, pink, white, blue, etc. on grounds of gold, red, and blue (approaching lapis lazuli), w-shaped piece bordered in a row of lozenges with similar floral vegetal design, entire piece set into a heavy well of gold interlace bordered in red bands with white accents ; illuminated marginal decoration of incipit and facing page consisting of swirling vegetal composition with large sāz leaves and floral forms in gold with black outline ; written area throughout set off with gold cloud-bands ; vegetal composition in gold fills band dividing two columns of written area or flanking centered text ; written area (and margin) framed by gold bands outlined in black fillets.
Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines only faintly visible roughly 20 mm. apart (vertical), gray in color, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, quite well-burnished; many bifolia split; minor pest and moisture damage.
Binding: Heavy pasteboards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in dark brown leather; Type III binding (without flap); two-piece binding with overlapping flanges plainly visible at spine (spine leather detaching with second layer of leather visible looking on spine from lower cover); doublures in fine painted lacquerwork of swirling floral vegetal composition in gold on a dark green ground surrounded by vegetal border in green and gold on a dark red ground with flanking gold fillets (composition of upper doublure mirrors that of lower doublure); upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical floral composition in mirror image to one another on a dark red background, namely a central cluster of peonies, poppies, tulips, etc. with iris, roses, poppies, and other floral forms all in shades of pink, light blue, lavender, and white with leaves in various shades of green, and surrounded by decorative band of floral vegetal motifs on a dark green ground framed in gold-painted borders; sewn in lime green thread, two stations, sewing failing, many gatherings loose; worked chevron endbands in lime green and pink, fairly good condition; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and losses to lacquerwork and pasteboard, etc.; housed in box for protection.
Former shelfmark: "199 T.D.M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1); "25 /10 " inscribed in ink on 'title page' (p.3).
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.543, copied by Aḥmad Jaʻfar [?] with transcription completed Rabīʻ I 1232 [January-February 1817] in Iṣfahān.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 285.
Incipit: "زهى مثالى که چون جمالت نبسته نقشى زمانه زىبا بخنده شىرىن ببذله شکر بغمزه لىلى بعشوه سلمى ..."
Explicit: "طاقش بى رواق چشم خوبان آمد اىن روى که ر نشىن عالم آمد ..."
Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads " ... شهر ربيع الاول ١٢٣٢ در دار [؟] السلطنه اصفهان ... اين كتاب مستطاب ... بخط احمد [؟] جعفر ..."
Yazar Rolü
Former owner,
Veritabanı
WorldCat
Tür
headpieces (layout features)
Sahiplik/Koruma Geçmişi
Traces of effaced seal impressions on opening leaf (p.1) ; fairly clean copy.
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