Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1722q

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DS ID:

DS12943

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1722q

Title:

Shāhanshāhʹnāmah

Author:

Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1822 or 1823 / صبا، فتح على بن محمد، -1822 or 1823

Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ṣabā WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1815 and 1850

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 430 leaves : paper ; 399 x 265 (290 x 181) mm. bound to 400 x 270 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Edge title.
Physical description: 20 lines per page, in four columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text framed in blue and gold, with outer gold border and double gold lines separating columns. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces presumably left for miniatures. Some leaves are loose and fol. 3-8 are detached. Foliated in Arabic script through fol. 220. Brown stain on upper...
Decorations: Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b in gold and color, with gold floral pattern in margins.
On fol. 1a and fol. 430b, a stamp dated 1316 H [1898 or 9] and accompanied by the number "132." Several additional stamps on fol. 1a.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Poetry

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Persian

Qājār, Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh, Shah of Iran, -1834

Iran

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9972372013506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c65e8db3-96db-4ae7-8213-fda7995fdb77/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University