Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 58G

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS13502

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 58G

Title:

Shāhnāmah

Author:

Firdawsī / فردوسى

Ferdowsi WIKIDATA

Date:

1674

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 561, ii leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 345 x 220 (265 x 146) mm. bound to 354 x 240 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 25 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text occasionally written on a diagonal. Text framed in gold and blue; columns separated by double gold lines. Headings in red. Catchwords and a few marginal notes. Inserts between fol. 9-10, 26-27. Some damp staining and smudging; a few paper repairs, particularly on...
Decoration: ʻUnwāns for the preface and book 1 illuminated in gold and color. With 119 miniatures, of which fifteen are full-size; likely late 18th century.
Origin: Copy completed on 1 Shaʻbān 1085 H [31 October 1674] (fol. 561a).
On fol. 1b, owner's note states that the book was purchased 9 Ṣafar 1202 H [20 November 1787] for 1500 rupees, and that it contains 563 folios [based on the erroneous Arabic foliation], 56,200 verses, and 120 miniatures by the artist Vilāyat.

Keyword:

Poetry

miniatures (paintings)

illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9969618263506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1a8c14ca-060c-434f-b999-6191db4c336c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University