Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 80G

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS13479

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 80G

Title:

Khamsah-i Ashraf Marāghah / خمسه اشرف مراغه

Khamsa

Author:

Ashraf Marāghahʹyī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan, 1410-1468 / اشرف مراغه‌يى، حسىن بن حسن، 1410-1468

Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Ashraf Marāghahʹyī WIKIDATA

Date:

1644?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, col. ill.

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 357 leaves: paper, col. ill. ; 273 x 181 (190 x 123) mm. bound to 284 x 187 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Physical description: 19 lines per page, in four columns; written in small, elegant nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Prefaces and poem 1 on blue paper, poem 2 on white, poem 3 on salmon, poem 4 on green, and poem 5 on indigo. Text bordered by blue and gold lines, with outer marginal gold line; columns separated by double gold lines. Text occasionally written on a diagonal...
Decoration: Elaborately illuminated ʻunwāns in gold and colors mark the two prefaces and each poem; titles in white on gold ground. On fol. 7b-8a, text embellished with floral pattern in gold and color, and margins decorated with gold and color foliar pattern. Text on first two pages of remaining poems set within clouds on gold ground. Headings in white on gold ground decorated with floral...
Decoration: Thirty-five miniatures of good quality from the same period as the ms. Two are full-page (fol. 6b-7a) and are set within gold, maroon, blue, and orange frames with margins decorated with gold floral pattern. The first miniature is signed Raqam-i [...] ʻAlī-Riḍā ʻAbbāsī sanah 1[0]82 H [?].
Origin: Prefaces written in Rabīʻ I 1054 H [April 1644] (fol. 3a); copy completed around same time. Original text completed 206 years prior (fol. 2b), i.e. 848 H [1444 or 5].
Two owner's stamps at the end and beginning of each poem. Acquired from Kalebdjian Frères, 1926.

Keyword:

Lacquered bindings

Islamic countries

Nineteenth century

Poetry

illuminated manuscripts

Seventeenth century

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Persian

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9969489653506421

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