Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 42

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DS ID:

DS4191

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 42

Title:

Vaqfnāmah-ʼi Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī.

Author:

Ḥusayn I, Shah of Iran, 1668-1726 / حسين

Sultan Husayn WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Khātūnʹābādī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusaynī, active 1706 / خاتون‌آبادى، محمد باقر بن اسماعيل الحسينى،

Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusaynī Khātūnʹābādī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 37 leaves : 229 x 160 (160 x 95) mm bound to 234 x 175 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Jaʻfar ʻAlī, active 1803 / جعفر على،

Jaʻfar ʻAlī WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Codices (bound manuscripts) Early works Manuscripts (documents)

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Four seals from the four witnesses at the lower left of each recto, except f. 20r.
Three items, one in Persian and two in English, explaining what the book is, with some errors of interpretation, tipped in. The first item (f. 27-28), in Persian, is signed Nadhīr al-Dīn Ḥasan and states that he was asked to identify the manuscript by Mr. George Sanders after the manuscript was brought to India by a certain Jaʻfar ʻAlī who presented it to Markham Ṣāḥib Bahādur (a title) after...
Two catalog entries inserted.
Binding: Bound in red leather with gilt-stamped frame and interior edges; doublure of marbled paper; brass clasp; gilded edges.
Layout: 5 long lines.
Script: Written in thuluth in black and gold ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in gold. Textblock border-ruled in gold, blue, purple, green, and gold with thin gold rules between each line of text.
Provenance: Sold at the James Park sale (Part II) Anderson Auction Company (New York), 15 March 1910, lot 551 (catalog entry pasted onto inside back cover).
Provenance: Sold at the Baker-Kennedy-Doyle and Other Collections sale (Third Session) American Art Association (New York), 31 January 1923, lot 436 for $96 (catalog entry tipped in between f. 35 and 36; another copy pasted onto first flyleaf verso).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Keyword:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Oriental

Endowments

Waqf

Manuscripts, Persian

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_042.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_042/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia