Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 84G

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DS ID:

DS13475

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 84G

Title:

Khamsah

Author:

Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325 / امىر خسرو دهلوى، approximately 1253-1325

Amir Khosrow WIKIDATA

Place:

Harāt

Herat TGN

Date:

1524

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 186, i leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 360 x 233 (222 x 143) mm. bound to 366 x 218 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
On fol. ia: Label reading "Persian Exhibition New York 1940 GR1."
Physical description: 21 lines per page, in four columns; written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Written surface gold-sprinkled and bordered by blue and gold lines; columns separated by double gold lines. Catchwords; headings in tawqīʻ in various colors. Some leaves are replacements on lighter paper. Light marginal damp staining. Last thirteen...
Decorations: Sunburst ornament on fol. 1a enclosing medallions inscribed with the volume's contents. Well-executed illuminated ʻunwāns at the beginning of each poem, in gold and colors. Illustrated with eight full-page miniatures in the classical Persian style, executed in the early 20th century; the signature on fol. 54b of Turābī Bek Khurāsānī is likely a nom de plume.
Origin: Copy completed by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-kātib in the middle of Rabīʻ II 930 [February 1524] in Harāt (fol. 186b).

Keyword:

Poetry

Lacquered bindings

Manuscripts, Persian

illuminated manuscripts

miniatures (paintings)

headpieces (layout features)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9969438383506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8412e9d6-0d6c-4003-bbd1-2f8a31a52726/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University