Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 95

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DS ID:

DS13205

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 95

Title:

Riyāz̤ al-inshāʼ

Author:

Maḥmūd Gāwān̲, 1411?-1481

Mahmud Gavan WIKIDATA

Date:

1500-1600

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 252] f.(15 lines), bound ; 18 cm.

Note:

Title from f. 1 [i.e.2]a.
Text is preceded by several additional letters and one page of verse in various hands.
Ms. in nastaliq script on glazed oriental paper. 17.7cm. x 14 cm. Headings, key words, overlinings, punctuation and some glosses in red ink. Text partially vocalized. Catchwords. Marginal notations in a variety of hands.
Binding is leather over pasteboard. Spine is red with blind stamped mandorla and center. Covers are brown and are attached to spine with leather hinges. Covers have blind stamped border of five fillets and are a band of arabesques. The innermost line is gilt as is the stamped geometric design in the center. Doublures are leather with some design as covers but lacking the arabesques. No endbands.
In pencil, on 3 lines: BR 799 (Y).

Keyword:

History

Early works

Manuscripts, Persian

Sources

India

Persian language--Rhetoric

Letter writing, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9930604813506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ac94e168-0ebb-4e68-8fc9-a1535e1af9bf/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University