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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4195

Shelfmark:

Lewis O 46

Title:

Tārīkh-i Nādirī. / [تاريخ نادرى]

Tārīkh-i Nādirī

Author:

Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, active 1733-1759 / مهدى خان استرابادى،

Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi WIKIDATA

Place:

Iṣfahān

Isfahan TGN

Language:

Persian with a few phrases in Arabic

Persian WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 169, i leaves : 230 x 140 (170 x 92) mm, bound to 175 x 147 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Ferrão de Castelo Branco, Jean de Carvalho Martins, 1805-1849

Jean de Carvalho Martins Ferrão de Castelo Branco WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Catalog entry in English and description of the manuscript in French in ink pasted onto last flyleaf recto; catalog entry in English, number 237, and bookplate for Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco (inside front cover).
Inscription in ink: "histoire de Nadir Chah beau manuscrit qui m'a été donné par le Roi du Perse en 1806" [signature illegible] (front flyleaf verso)
Binding: Lacquered boards; plain black outside covers, red inside covers with painted central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis.
Layout: 19 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq shikastah in black ink; pointed; Arabic in naskh.
Decoration: Texblock border-ruled in red, gold, dark blue; rubrications in red; page-opening frame-ruled in gold.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco with the address 70 Avenue des Champs-Elysées; probably Jean de Carvalho Martins Ferrão de Castelo Branco (1805-1849) (bookplate inside front cover).
Provenance: Sold at an Anderson Auctions in 1910 (note in pencil, front flyleaf verso).
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, back flyleaf verso).

Keyword:

Lacquered bindings (Binding)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts

Eighteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_046.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_o_046/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia