Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1494Y

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DS ID:

DS13518

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1494Y

Title:

Dīvān-i Mawlānā Kamāl

Author:

Kamāl Khujandī, -approximately 1400 / كمال خجندي

Kamal Khujandi WIKIDATA

Date:

1572 or 1686

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 254 leaves : paper ; 190 x 120 (127 x 71) mm. bound to 192 x 130 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from the illuminated opening (fol. 1b).
12 lines per page, in two columns with central headpieces, written in nastaʻlīq using black ink. Gold, black and blue fillets form the outer frame; a single red fillet divides the columns. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines visible. On fol. 1b: illuminated headpiece. On fol. i(a): label with mention in Arabic "raqm 309" ; inscription in Arabic script "Sayyid ʻAlī Kitāb al-miʻrāj".
Copied in Muḥarram 980 or 1098 by Yādkār(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Niẓām (colophon, fol. 254a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (endpaper, with inscription and labels) + 254 + i (endpaper).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947306253506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/61c2fcf6-c4d5-4e5a-9006-1ba32c6e2364/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University