University of Pennsylvania, LJS 278
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS111
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 278
- Title:
- Kitāb-i Ḥashāyish / کتاب حشايش
- Author:
- Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos / ديسقوريدس. of Anazarbos
- Place:
- Iran?
- Date:
- 17th century?
- Language:
- Persian
- Material:
- paper, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 172 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 400 x 260 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Digby, Simon
Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 172 leaves; [i, 1-35, 37, i, 38-116, i-ii, 117-217, i, 218-234, 237-240, 243-244, 247-266, 269-276, 280-303, 308-327, 330-335, 335-336, 336-338, 340, 340-355]; modern foliation in pencil, usually in the lower margin.
Layout: Written in up to 15 long lines (text block varies to accommodate illustrations); ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: 315 illustrations of 550 plants and several animals in opaque watercolor and ink, some incomplete with only ink outlines or early layers of color; rubrication and occasional text words in red ink (some rubrication lacking); text block outlined in faint black and red ink.
Origin: Possibly written in Iran in the 17th century (the colophon of a possibly related manuscript has an unclear date, Muḥarram A.H. 1004 (1595) or AH 1054 (1645), though the later date is more likely).
A partial reconstruction of the original order of the leaves, compiled by Marianna Shreve Simpson, is available in the library.
Formerly owned by British scholar, translator, and collector Simon Digby (1932-2010).
Offered for sale at David Carritt Limited (London) in the Artemis Group exhibition Indian painting 1525-1825, 1 April-30 April 1982, no. 17.
Sold by Simon Digby to Sam Fogg Ltd. (Sam Fogg).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, November 1998.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949183233503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p36w9694p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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