Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1469Y

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS13657

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1469Y

Title:

Dīvān ... [etc.

Date:

1518-1519

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 400 leaves: paper ; 220 x 140 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, black and blue.
Physical description: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red and occasionally gold (see fol. 343b). Dark cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves mended (see fol. 1-8 and fol. 400).
Decoration: Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpieces at the beginning of texts 1 and 3 (fol. 1b and 340b).
Origin: [Dīvān] Copied on 1 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 924 [Dec. 4, 1518] (colophon, fol. 338a) -- [Biography] Copied in 925? [1519] (colophon, fol. 400b, hardly legible).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Mahdi

Khānaqāh-i Niʻmat Allāhī

Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955635663506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7e2233e5-2ca0-459e-9088-707561513170/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University