Vassar College, Persian ms. 4

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26358

Shelfmark:

Persian ms. 4

Title:

Persian masnavi

Masnavi

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

between 1700 and 1735?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill., illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 101 leaves : paper, ill., illuminations ; 235 x 140 (170 x 75) mm. bound to 235 x 143 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title assigned by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, fol. i +101 + i; 1-48 56 6-98 1010 118 128 (+9) 134
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 14 lines; frame-ruled.
Script: Written in Nastaʿlīq; romanization supplied by cataloger.
Decoration: colored and illuminated headpiece on fol. 1v; colored minatures, some illuminated, on fol. 11v, 13r, 16r, 20r, 22v, 25r, 43v, 46v, 58v, 60r, 74v, 85r; frame rules in gold,
Origin: Written in Iran probably in the early 18th century.
Ownership stamps on upper flyleaf recto and fol. 1r of Muḥammad Ṣādiq, Muḥammad ʿAbd al- Qādir, and Abū al-Qāsim, some dated H. 1148/1735; unidentifed library stamp on upper flyleaf recto and fol. 1r; inscription on upper flyleaf recto: "Vassar College Library, Thompson Bequest 1924"; later annotation contains a name, Agha Hussein Rashti, and date, H. Muharram 1234/October-November 1818...

Keyword:

Masnavis

Annotations

Lacquered bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Ink stamps

Miniature painting, Iranian

Eighteenth century

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian

Islamic miniature painting

Sufi poetry, Persian

Early works

Sufism

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/al3g85/alma991019280125707396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College