Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X892.8 P43

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26204

Shelfmark:

X892.8 P43

Title:

Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām / منشاء انشاء الكلام

Author:

Niẓāmī Bākharzī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ, -1503 or 1504 / نظامى باخرزى، عبد الواسع، -1503 or 1504

ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ Niẓāmī Bākharzī WIKIDATA

Date:

18--?

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian with some Arabic quotations

Persian WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 75 foliated leaves : paper, illuminations ; 205 x 165 (137 x 90) mm, bound to 210 x 165 mm

Note:

Binding: Plain reddish leather over pasteboard with brown paper doublure.
Decoration: Illuminated headpice in blue and green (f. 1v) with foliate marginal fill in green (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in blue, black, gold; page-opening frame-ruled in red.
Layout: Chiefly written in 8 long lines.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: The copy is undated; possibly 19th century.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Shelfmark: X892.8 P43.
Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Keyword:

letters (correspondence)

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Persian

Persian letters

Early works

Persian prose literature

Letter writing, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15373152

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library