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Metadata

DS ID:

DS107

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 189

Title:

Z̲akhīrah-ʹi Khvārazmshāhī / ذخيره‌ خوارزم‌شاهى

Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi

Author:

Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137 / جرجاني، اسماعيل بن حسن، 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137

Zayn al-Din Gorgani WIKIDATA

Place:

Persia?

Persia TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1399?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 352 leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 395 x 317 (278 x 230) mm bound to 400 x 322 mm

Former Owner(s):

Stanitz, John D

John D. Stanitz WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Hagop Kevorkian Fund

Hagop Kevorkian Fund WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (f. 352v) and beginning and end of each book.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 352 + ii; [1-352]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added after re-margination, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines; ruled in blind.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. 14 replacement folios written in a second hand.
Decoration: Illuminated text divider (f. 62v, 125v); illuminated circular medallion (f. 125r), miniature of a couple sitting under a tree (f. 214v); text block outlined in red; rubrics in red.
Binding: 18th-century blind-stamped reddish-brown leather remnants laid down on the same color leather over boards; marbled paper pastedowns.
Origin: The item is undated, probably copied in Persia in the 14th century.
Ownership stamp dated 1186? (1772-1773 CE) with inscription in ink (f. 1r); Persian customs stamp dated 1342 (f. 1r, 352v).
Formerly owned by the Hagop Kevorkian Fund; offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, 2 May 1977, lot 163, unsold.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other Hagop Kevorkian Fund materials, 27 April 1981, lot 108.
Appears in H.P. Kraus's catalog 186 (1991), no. 173.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 20.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, September 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

encyclopedias

miniatures (paintings)

Manuscripts

Fourteenth century

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts, Medieval

Early works

Medicine, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949222153503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3m03xz3w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania